The order of loading drivers determines which is eth0 and eth1. On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Dave Townsend wrote:
> Ok, in digging around I've found out something possibly useful. If I plug the > cable modem in after the machine has all started up, then everything seems > fine. It sets itself as eth1 and everything works as I would expect. The > problem arises if the modem is plugged in when the machine starts up, in which > case ifconfig only shows one Ethernet device (eth0) and it has the mac address > that the cable modem usually has. I can use dhcp on it to access the net, but > not use the internal nic at the same time. Oh and from time to time eth0 > changes back to what would be the ip address on the nic, but I'm guessing this > is something in mandrake doing this. Unplugging and plugging the modem back in > resolves this. But I would rather it worked from boot up, but I'm guessing > that its something to do with the order stuff is brought up. I know the usb is > brought up before any of the network interfaces are initialised. Any thoughts? > > In response to the questions below: > > 1. Its a via chipset I think, its definitely uhci. Its Mandrake 8.2 with > kernel 2.4.18-6mdk > 2. Net card is a generic realtek 8139 using driver 8139too. > 3. Its an ambit cable modem. Cant find any model number. > 4. Nothing about broken descriptors, the only possible concerns are (not > verbatim and these are when the cable modem was not connected at boot up): > > hotplug: missing kernel or user mode driver acm > hotplug: missing kernel or user mode driver CDCEther > CDCEther.c eth1: set multicast filters > Last message repeated 2 times > CDCEther.c eth1: set too many MC filters using allmulti > > 5. Not easily at the moment. Read above for more info. > > > As usual any help greatly appreciated... > > > Dave > > In reply to: > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:01, Dave Townsend wrote: > > I'm having some problems setting up my cable modem. I plug it in and it > > gets detected and CDCEther loaded. The only problem is that CDCEther seems > > to think the modem is now device eth0, despite me already having a network > > car that was using eth0. A few places say that there is an eth0 and eth1 > > devices, but I cant bring eth1 up and I can use dhcpcd on eth0 to get the > > ip address from my ISP. Is there any way to solve this, possibly there is > > something I should be setting to tell CDCEther to use eth1 as the device or > > something? > I vaguely recall someone else reporting this. Not sure what the solution was, > but it may have involved upgrading the kernel. Do you have something older > than 2.4.18? > > Other useful information: > 1. What architecture are you running on? What type of host controller? > 2. What is the network driver and hardware? > 3. What type is the cable modem? > 4. Are you seeing messages about broken descriptors in your logs? > 5. Can you show the output of ifconfig (or ip) for the various combinations? > > Brad > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Stuff, things, and much much more. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
