Re: 2 identical ethernet cards?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 20 Aug 2001 09:29:18 -0700 kirkjt kirkjt com imparted to us:

> Thomas,
> 
> Here is what I have to do to make my two ethernet card setup work.  I
> have two very similar cards but with different drivers.  Eth0 is
> RTL8139 and eth1 is NE2K-PCI.  The following steps are what I have to
> do to make all of my networking work correctly after a restart.  I
> still haven't tried to figure out why this does this, but since I
> don't reboot often, I don't have to do it a lot.
> 
> [as root]
> ifdown eth0
> rmmod ne2k-pci (appartently eth1 driver talking to eth0 card?)
> ifup eth0 
> [at this point, eth0 and eth1 come up correctly, my firewall script
> executes and I am up and going.

You can add lines at the end of rc.local to do this. That's the way I
keep mine now after having to do a dance with removing, rebooting,
adding one, rebooting, adding another and rebooting just to get it to
work every time I upgrade a kernel (as often as I find one suitable). In
my case, downing one, insmoding and upping the original doesn't work. I
have to shut the whole network down, insmod and up the whole network
(this _includes_ lo) or it continues to fail. Now I just don't bring the
network up until the end and insmod the module first. Never failed me
(yet).

> Don't know if this helps, but your symptoms sound similar to mine.
> 
> Kirk
> 
> **********************************************
> >Well, the weekend's over, & still no luck...  3Com 3c509B etherlink
> III combos.
> 
> >eth0 (internal network) boots up fine.
> >eth1 (to cablemodem) gives "eth1 initialization delayed" or some
> such...
> 
> >I've used linuxconfig, & control-panel to set upa ll the stuff, as
> well as going in & doing it by hand.
> 
> >eth0 is at irq 10, 0x300
> >eth1 is at irq 11, 0x340
> 
> >So far as I can tell, none of these conflicts with anything (although
> maybe I should check my 2nd >parallel port, as I seem to be unable to
> print)...
> 
> >I did a full re-install of 6.2 (several times, now - haven't put in
> the updates, yet)...  Interestingly, on the >1st reinstall, I added
> all the updates & the kernel compile (the newest 6.2 kernel) fails in
> the same >spot as before - during the ipmasq stuff...  So, did another
> full install, but no
> >updates, yet...
> 
> >Right now, I'm just trying to solve the ethernet issue.
> 
> 
> 
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