problems with 2 NICs in amd64
Hi,
I don't know if this is a problem in amd-64 porting... please let me
know if there is a better mailing-list for this question.
I had a machine running debian-testing with amd-k7 processor.
Unfortunately, the motherboard broke. I have two new motherboards with
"AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+" that I wanted to use for this server.
Since I think that 64bit processors are compatible with i386/32bit, I
just put the hard-disk in the new motherboard. I'm not interested in
performance right now, just need that it works.
I need two NICs in this computer, for running a real ip + private ip
+ openswan + apache-ssl + webmail
I have several NICs available. 2x realtek 8139, 2x 3com905, sis900,
via-rhine-2. I just need 2 NICs working.
Everytime that I put two NICs in the PCI slots, none of them work.
The only case that work is a single 3com905 NIC. I tried with the two
motherboards, with the 2 AMD processors, and I could not make debian
work with the two NICs. All the NICs are working ok in other machines
and both motherboards are new.
The problem that occours is:
"lspci" : show all the NICs: OK
"modprobe MODULE" : loads the NIC module: OK
"lsmod" : show the modules loaded: OK
"dmesg | grep -i eth" : shows that eth0 and eth1 were detected
Example:
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1a400, 00:18:f3:fd:ad:a8, IRQ 233.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 01e1 Link 0000.
"uname -a" : tried with "2.6.18-4-amd64", "2.6.18-4-486" and
"2.6.17-4-k7" debian kernels.
up to now, everything seems OK.
when running the command:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
if fails with the following message:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
The only situation that "ifconfig" sets up correctly is with one
3com905 NIC plugged into PCI slot, when there are two nics, none work.
I don't know what to do now. All hardware is OK, I tried several
hardware combinations... with the HD in a -k7 machine it works OK, but
I don't have a -k7 motherboard available for this server, and I'd like
to upgrade it to amd64.
I have no previous experience with amd-64 processors.
Any hint about how to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Sorry for the huge message,
Pedro
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