I have both drivers compiled into the kernel at the moment and I wish I knew why eth1 is not "available". Anyway, I will try your suggestion.
Does anyone know a good source on linux ethernet networking? Thanks, -- Valmor de Almeida > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 22:08, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > The result from lspci on my laptop shows two > > ethernet interfaces. One is on the port replicator, > > and the other (functional) is on the laptop chassi. > > > > 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev > > 78) 08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] > > (rev 08) > > > > I've been trying to configure the interface on the port replicator > > but no luck. I do have eth0 to configure but eth1 does not exist. > > How are those created anyway? Anybody with past experience on that? > > I wish I *knew* how the interfaces are numbered, but if you keep the drivers > as modules (or 1 of), you can force the order. > i.e. compile the 3x59x into the kernel, and the eepro100 as a module. The > kernel will have support for the 3com during boot assigning it eth0, loading > eepro100 later will give it eth1. > > Alternatively, leave both drivers as modules, and in /etc/modules.d/aliases > add: > alias eth0 3c59x > alias eth1 eepro100 > > Once you've 'update-modules''d, don't try to automatically load the modules, > as when something tries to access either eth0 or eth1 the module will > automatically be loaded. > > - -- > Mike Williams > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAIXYnInuLMrk7bIwRAngPAKCQqVUzTRvR3MdZ9/wHxdnmLOgm2ACfenJ1 > r/oQCSP+yTEmyg5NPq6TADM= > =93eb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
