According to John Wunderlich: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi all;
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> I have Red Hat 5.1 (2.0.35). It runs fine with two NIC's - 1 pci 3C59x & 1
> isa 3C509B. This works fine with 2.0.35. When I compile the new Kernel
> 2.1.131 (I include both cards in the config for the build) I can't get the
> system to recognize the 509. If I do an ifup eth1 I get a delaying
> initialization method. If I do an ifconfig eth1 192.168..... up I get a
> couple of operation not supported by device errors.
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> I'm thinking that I didn't finish the compile, build and install properly.
> After the make bzImage ran successfully I did a cp
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz to move the kernal
> image. Then I edited the lilo.conf to include:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=fubar
> Then I ran lilo. It added fubar and linux.old (the original kernal) just
> fine. I reboot and the new kernel doesn't see the modules for 3C509. If I
> do a modprobe eth1 I just get the prompt back with no other response. My
> /etc/conf.modules identifies the 3c509 as eth1 with options 3c509 irq=5.
>
> How do I finish the build so that it can look for modules and libraries in
> the right place? Or is there something else I'm doing wrong?
It is finished.
A quote from /the Ethernet HOWTO.
There are two ways that you can enable auto-probing for the second
(and third, and...) card. The easiest method is to pass boot-time
arguments to the kernel, which is usually done by LILO. Probing for
the second card can be achieved by using a boot-time argument as
simple as ether=0,0,eth1. In this case eth0 and eth1 will be assigned
in the order that the cards are found at boot. Say if you want the
card at 0x300 to be eth0 and the card at 0x280 to be eth1 then you
could use
LILO: linux ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x280,eth1
The ether= command accepts more than the IRQ + i/o + name shown above.
Please have a look at `Passing Ethernet Arguments...'' for the full
syntax, card specific parameters, and LILO tips.
These boot time arguments can be made permanent so that you don't have
to re-enter them every time. See the LILO configuration option
ppend' in the LILO manual.
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> Thanks in advance
> JW
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Regards Richard.
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