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
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