dual network cards

[Joel Dudley]

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
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>
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