Subject: Re: Networking Woe's
From: Mark Jaffe (wizards@wizdev.net)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 22:49:37 MST
On 11/29/01 7:55 PM, "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 2:02 PM -0800 11/29/01, Mark Jaffe wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Let me guess -- the RTL8139 driver is built as a module. The problem
> is that at the time the boot scripts try to initialize network
> interfaces, the driver module hasn't been loaded, and therefore the
> "eth1" interface doesn't exist as far as the kernel is concerned.
> The boot scripts get as far as figuring out the interface doesn't
> exist even though there is a configuration file for it, but, not
> knowing what to do to bring it online, they just punt and do the
> "delaying initialization" thing.
>
> Two workarounds (that I know of): build the driver into the kernel
> instead of as a module, -or- add the following line to the top of
> /etc/modules.conf to force it to load automatically:
>
> alias eth1 8139too
>
> (or rtl8139 if you're using that driver instead).
Ah-ha! I was thinking that was the right thing to do (second choice,) but
was not entirely sure. Thanks, I'll try it now!
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