Hm, I tried this, and you're right.
However, it uses the eepro100 driver, as I could unload the e100 driver by:
rmmod e100
and the network is still working.
Yes, tried that and it's the same here. But now it seems that it was not the combination of both drivers that rendered my network useless, but it was the eepro100 driver on it's own. I get a load of:
Mar 1 15:38:59 t-1-131 kernel: eth0: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
So, I've to keep the e100 driver.
Remco