Subject: Re: Networking Woe's
From: Barry Sparenborg (barrys@jorsm.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 19:37:49 MST
on 11/29/01 4:22 PM, Iain Stevenson at iain@iainstevenson.com wrote:
>
> I had that "delaying eth1 initialization" message with a card for which I
> was having trouble with the driver. It meant that the driver wasn't
> actually being loaded. The answer was to get a newer driver from
> http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci - the site also has a few tools
> you can use to check out Ethernet cards in general.
>
> You could use "ifconfig eth1 192.168.x.y up" as an alternative to using
> netcfg to bring the Ethernet interface up. It's also worth using lsmod to
> check for the driver module being loaded.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> --On Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:02 pm -0800 Mark Jaffe
> <wizards@wizdev.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/01 1:06 AM, "Iain Stevenson" <iain@iainstevenson.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> To disable a module, look in the folder /lib/modules/2.x.x where you
>>> replace 2.x.2 with the kernel version that's running. The driver module
>>> will be in that folder hierarchy. Then move the module you want to
>>> disable out of the way.
>>>
>>> I think the routing tables could still be worth looking at. Does an
>>> ifconfig show packets being sent and received across eth1?
>>>
>>> Iain
>>
>> Trying to manage added network card; I've got my Realtek 8139 working now,
>> it shows up as eth1 but at boot time message comes out "Delaying eth1
>> initialization" and I don't know how to make this stop so it comes up at
>> boot time. I have to get into X to run netcfg (is there a non-X equivalent
>> script??) and even after using netcfg to enable eth1 and disable eth0
>> (built-in MACE) if I do "ifconfig -a" it only shows lo and eth0. What does
>> this mean? How can I get it to stick to using eth1 only at boot time?
>>
>> Mark
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>
>
>
I got it......... set up the farallon card as eth2 and works great!!!!
Thanks for all your help and insight
-- Barry & Terri Sparenborg
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