Folks,
I'm hoping someone can advise me & improve my understanding of how
modules are / can be loaded by the kernel.
I have a RealTek 8139 <makes sign of The Holy Chipset> which has been
installed in my Gentoo box for some time. It has always been the only
network card in that machine, and it is loaded by the entry `8139too`
in /etc/modules.autoload. All works fine & fluffy.
Today I had cause to add a second network card, a PCI RealTek 8129
(that's: 81_2_9). The 8139too module appears to be also suitable for
this card so recompiled my kernel with the appropriate additional
option enabled for this module.
Afterwards:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # grep 8139 /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_8139CP=m
CONFIG_8139TOO=m
# CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y
# CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller #
I have `cp /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth0` as suggested by
the docs at Gentoo.org <http://tinyurl.com/7i8s>, and added a second
line to /etc/conf, but `/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start` gives the same
result as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.44 broadcast
192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller #
What I'm guessing is that I need in some way to call modprobe in such a
way that it also configures for my 8129, or at least I need to tell it
where to look for it. Both cards seem to be recognised at some level by
the kernel:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:C3:5E:5C
inet addr:192.168.1.43 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:504359 (492.5 Kb) TX bytes:871102 (850.6 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
<snippage - no mention of eth1>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller # cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
<snippage>
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
(rev 0).
IRQ 11.
I/O at 0x9400 [0x941f].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0x9800 [0x98ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xec0000ff].
This <http://tinyurl.com/7i95> Usenet posting and some other stuff I've
read about "options" seems to point the right way, but I'm obviously
just not grasping something. In particular, `grep eth
/etc/modules.conf` draws a blank on my system, and that file is
commented not to be human-editable, anyway.
Perhaps someone can suggest something..?
Many thanks in advance for time & bandwidth,
Stroller.
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