[SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread scott
Hi all, I am a new Debian user (very impressed so far), but an old (3 years is oldish?) redhat user. The only problem I have come across so far is I can't switch make the gigabit eth0 and the 100mbit eth1. The 100mbit driver is built into the kernel while the gigabit is a module. I have tried

Re: [SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 100mbit driver is built into the kernel while the gigabit is a module. I have tried adding a line into modules.conf stating: alias eth0 e1000 but when I bring the interfaces up it still ties the 100mbit to eth0 and fails on eth1,

Re: [SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/09/2002 09:41:16 PM: Scott, have you tried using the programme modconf to load the gigabit driver? If not, give it a run and if it still fails you can punt the error into an email for us to have a squiz at :) Craige, The gigabit works if I alias eth1 to

Re: [SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] The only problem I have come across so far is I can't switch make the gigabit eth0 and the 100mbit eth1. The 100mbit driver is built into the kernel while the gigabit is a module. That's your problem. If they were both modules, you could just load them in the

Re: [SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I alias the gigabit to be eth0 in modules.conf, the 100mb is still used as eth0, but I want it to be eth1. Is there any config file I need to modify? I think Jeff hit the nail on the head, if you make both cards modules, you may

Re: [SLUG] Switching Interfaces on network cards

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Massey
* Scott [2002-09-18 22:33]: The gigabit works if I alias eth1 to e1000 in modules.conf. what seems to be the problem, If I can explain better (I have never been good at explaining problems in emails) What I want is the gigabit to be eth0, and the 100mbit to be eth1. You could perhaps try