On Wednesday 29 January 2003 21:42, David Harel wrote: > Alex, > > I posted a message to you and the group regarding my findings about the > cable modem (attached below) I saw it, I just had no time to answer, sorry. > > Since I did not receive any reply I presumed I failed to send it. Could you > verify that you got it and can you figure out how to help me in this > matter? > > The updated request. > Thanks everyone who replied, (it always gets me by a surprise that so many > people are kind enough to > spend their time and answer) > > OK, things are a little more difficult. > > To begin, with I failed to describe my machine. It is an HP omnibook > laptop. It has network card built > into it and a single USB port to which I hooked a USB HUB. I am running > Linux RH 8.0. > Since I jammed the linux installation I reinstalled everything from scratch > (while the cable modem is > connected to the USB via the HUB). > In the installation process I was prompted for eth0 only. I gave it IP > address 10.0.0.1 > > It took me a while to figure out that after boot, eth0 is the USB cable > modem. I was not able to > reference eth1 at all. The following in /etc/modules.conf may help
alias eth0 the_built_in_network_card_driver alias eth1 CDCEther > > What I do to make it work is: > > 1.Stop network operations by the command: /etc/init.d/network stop > 2.Disconnect the cable modem from the USB hub. > 3.Start eth0 manually by the command: ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask > 255.255.255.0 up > 4.Reconnect the cable modem to the USB hub. > 5.I fiddle a little with the start/stop of /etc/init.d/network and > vualla. eth0 is the network card and > eth1 is the usb cable modem. > > I would like it to go smoothly on boot time without fiddling that much. > Also I would like to figure out > which eth? is to which physical hardware thing. Driver that detects its hardware first ( meaning usually driver that is loaded first, except USB, PCMCIA and other hotplugs ), gets eth0. And I HATE THIS WAY, as it doesn't play well with hotplugging. This stupidity should have been improved before long. > I tried to use modprobe -c and got that eth0 is an alias to something. To what exactly? > > below are the files ifcfg-eth[01] > eth0: > > DEVICE=eth0 > IPADDR=10.0.0.1 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=10.0.0.0 > ONBOOT=yes > NAME=eth0 > Seems to be all right. > eth1: > > DEVICE=eth1 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes Seems to be all right too. > -- Regards, Alex Chudnovsky e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 35559910 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
