dual network cards

Mark Peoples hondaman@mainex1.asu.edu
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:05:15 -0700


Have you tried the lilo append for the ethernet cards yet?  It's in the RH
5.2 manual, which is at home...but that's what got them working for me
(3C905 and a 3C905B, both PCI, in one of my boxes).

-----Original Message-----
From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:03 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: dual network cards


The cards are pci and I do have the aliases set up.  I found out that
linksys has the new driver, I just dont know how the heck to install it.  It
is tulip.c  from their site.

- Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: dual network cards


> On Apr 12,  5:14pm, Joel Dudley wrote:
>
> > A newbie at my wits end!!   Here is what I did.  I installed red hat
with
> > the server option, thus I have no X.  I put two Linksys NICs into the
> > system, but red hat setup did not detect them and set them up.  I know
they
> > use tulip.o  which is located in my /lib/modules/kernelversion/net
> > directory.  I tried to use linuxconfig from the CL, but to no avail.  I
even
> > tried appending lilo.conf after doing a cat /proc/pci  to get the IRQ
and IO
> > of the cards.  What is the easiest way for one to install network cards
from
> > the CLI when setup does not detect them????  I also tried adding my owng
> > ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory
but
> > still no good.  Ahhh at least it is good that I have been humbled by
this
> > problem.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Are they PCI cards or ISA cards?
>
> Anyway, it sounds to me that you need some entries for these cards in
> conf.modules.  Something along the lines of
>
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 tulip
>
> (If you're really sure that they use the tulip driver that is... have
> you checked the Ethernet HOWTO?)
>
> You may also need some options lines for configuring the irq etc, but
> I'd leave these out until you are certain that you really need them.
>
> If they are PCI cards, I believe the cards are detected in bus order.
> This'll determine which is eth0 and eth1.  If they're ISA cards, I
> think the order of detection is driver dependent.  With the old 3c509
> cards that I used to use, I think the one with the lowest ethernet
> address was eth0 and the other was eth1.
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Buettner
> kev@primenet.com, kevinb@redhat.com
>
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