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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