RE: two card clash
Great info, helps a lot, thanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: lint@lint.localdomain [mailto:lint@lint.localdomain]On Behalf Of
Bryan Scaringe
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:29 PM
To: Chris Mason
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Debian-User; aphro
Subject: RE: two card clash
Your cards will not show up in ifconfig until they are configured.
Take the loopback interface as an example. You probably have support
for the lopback device built into your kernel. But you wont have an entry for
it in ifconfig untill your init-scripts do something like:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo
In other words, what you see in dmesg is just the module being loaded, not
the network configuration for the card.
Hope this helps,
Bryan
On 04-Apr-2000 Chris Mason wrote:
> hmmm. still very confused. According to dmesg both cards were assigned
> properly, ther's just a line for each assigning eth0 and eth1 respectively
> (can't include as it's not on the network, and there's no floppy drive).
> However, ifconfig shows no eth0 or eth1.
> What do I have to do to get these cards installed now?
> Thanks for all your patience, guys.
>
> Chris Mason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: aphro [mailto:nate@firetrail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:43 PM
> To: Chris Mason
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> Subject: Re: two card clash
>
>
> it would be helpful if you included output from dmesg, and also did you
> try to insmod the rtl8139 module manually ? if it loads(with or without
> errors) run dmesg again and see what the kernel says.
>
> i have run dual 3com 3c905s and dual rtl8139s with no trouble. there is
> the matter of the PCI bus, if you are installing a 2nd card after the
> system is configured and it is in a lower pci slot, the system would
> detect it first making the 2nd card eth0, but thats not a linux problem(in
> my opinion)
>
> nate
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> chris >Corel Linux - Intel box
> chris >I installed the OS with one rtl8139 netowrk card in it, the OS found
> the card and loaded the right module which was assigned in the
> /etc/conf.modules file. The network functioned and running an ifconfig
> command revealed eth0 was assigned properly and all the parameters were
> correct.
> chris >I closed down and added another rtl8139 card. I booted and there was
> no network cards in ifconfig, no networking functioning.
> chris >
> chris >How do I avoid this problem? Is it an IRQ problem? I thought PCI
> avoided this.
> chris >
> chris >Chris Mason
> chris >Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
> chris >Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
> chris >USA Fax (561) 382-7771
> chris >Take a virtual tour of the island
> chris >http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide
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> chris >www.netconcepts.ai
> chris >bwz*mq
> chris >
> chris >
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