pci fiasco

[Joel Dudley]

Did a little pinging and figured it out.  Turns out the IRQ's got from the
bottom up on my ASUS mobo.  Thanks for the help.

- Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Peoples <hondaman@mainex1.asu.edu>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: RE: pci fiasco


> I knew which ones were which when I installed the 2nd card, but you could
> probably find out by pinging a system on your local network. By knowing
the
> routing, and by seeing traffic on the hub (assuming you have a hub) or by
> the LED on the NIC (again, if your NIC has an LED), you'll be able to tell
> 99% that that card is eth0 or eth1.
>
> Geez...today was long...no idea if what I just said is
> comprehendible...either way, I'll have something more understandable in a
> few mins.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 4:48 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: pci fiasco
>
>
> I have two Linksys ethernet cards in a firewall system that I am
configuring
> (finally got the new linksys modules installed!).  Anyway, the NIC's are
> working fine, I just cant figure out which physical card correlated to
eth0
> or eth1.  I thought that the IRQ's would be descending, thus the interface
> with IRQ 10 is in the topmost slot and the interface with IRQ 11 is in the
> bottomost slot.  It doesnt seem to be this way on my computer however.
> Anyone have experience with this?  I guess I could just go into the BIOS
and
> set resources manually.  Maybe I should make sure the numbers in cat
> /proc/pci make sense with the numbers from ifconfig.  Thanks in advance
for
> anyone who has advice on this issue.  Maybe if I get this firewall going I
> can stop calling myself a newbie and upgrade to user.  Must keep
approaching
> every linux situation as a newbie if I want to be a good Zen monk though I
> guess.
>
> - Joel
>
>
> PS  First time at a meeting last night and I must say it was fun.  I look
> forward to further meetings.  (I am the big dufus that won the Corel Linux
> box in the raffle)
>
>
>
>
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