Thank you to those who responded so far to my message
ABrady wrote:
>It usually helps to start out with what type of NIC you have trouble
>with. OK, it's internal. Who made it? What's the model? What kind of
>driver does it use? What IRQ and/or IO settings does it have? Most or
It is an Actiontec 82559-based MiniPCI ethernet adapter. WIn2K says it
uses Interrupt Request 11...
Before buying the laptop, I checked in linux-laptop.net, and a number of
other users seemed to be saying that the MiniPCI worked for them out of
the Sealwolf box.
Bill Nottingham wrote:
>It very well may be that when you're *not* in the docking station,
>you don't have an eth0 device. Since ethernet devices are assigned
>in-order (i.e., eth0, then eth1, then eth2), you can't have an
>eth1 if you don't have an eth0.
Interesting! But if this is so, how could I fix it? Would just renaming
eth0 --> eth1 and eth1 --> eth0 work? How could this be done in safe way?
Thanks again,
Marcelo
Original message
> Hello,
>
> I installed seawolf on a Dell Inspiron 8K. Everything installed
> without
> any problems. All RH updates (including the kernel 2.4.3) have been
> applied.
>
> The installation detected both the ethernet card on the docking
> station
> (eth0) and the internal one (eth1). I have eth0 setup for my DSL at
> home
> (static IP address) and eth1 for DHCP at work.
>
> The docking station ethernet works flawlessly under both seawolf and
> win2K, and the internal ethernet card works fine using DHCP under
> Win2K.
>
> However, when I try to bring up eth1 under linux with netcfg, I get a
>
> "delaying eth1 initialization"
>
> message and the thing gets stuck there.
>
> I have ipchains running, and at first I thought that was the problem.
> However, using lokkit, I selected "high security" and checked DHCP.
> The
> file /etc/sysconfig/ipchains has two lines that I believe are the
> right
> ones, although I am not sure:
>
> -A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
>
> Any guesses as to what the problem could be or how I could start
> troubleshooting it?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Marcelo
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