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Re: NIC problem



On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Peter Samek wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:08:39AM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > The box is a bridging firewall, with a custom compiled kernel.  I've
> > done this configuration loads of times, but not with these NICs.
> > 
> [...]
> 
> > I'm ashamed to say that I don't know how to see which card is eth0.  I'm
> > not on site, and I'd rather not go there just for this.  I'm guessing
> > it's the one with the lower PCI id (the natsemi)?
> > 
> > APIC is compiled into the kernel, and I've heard that removing it
> > might help.  Anyone have any advice?  (Running 2.4.18.)
> 
> Hi.
> 
> If you grep /var/log/dmesg (or any logfile with boot messages) for eth0
> or eth1, you should be able to find out.
> 
> Example from my machine:
> 
> $ grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg
> eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xec00, IRQ 18, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.

Good point.  It turned out to be the SiS. :)  Anyone know about the
APIC thing?  Does APIC provide any benefit on a uniprocessor machine?

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