[olug] eth0 troubles

[Neal Rauhauser]

  you have to do something like

  append ethers and then tell it the io port and irq the NE2000 is using. Brian
Roberson will no doubt laugh at my clumsy explanation - he can do this off the
top of his head.


   There is an example of how to do it for a single card in this URL - search for
"append" and you'll find it.


http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/linux-ethernet.html

bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:

> Right now I only have one card in the machine (NE2000).  I am considering
> recompiling but since that is significant in time (make dep takes about 45
> minutes) I'd rather avoid that unless I screwed something up with the
> initial build.
>
> My local guru advised me to compile the support in since I knew what I was
> using.  Is there a downside to compiling it in?
>
> Bill
>
>
>                     Neal
>                     Rauhauser            To:     olug at bstc.net
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>                     isptech              Subject:     Re: [olug] eth0 troubles
>
>
>                     07/05/01
>                     04:19 PM
>                     Please
>                     respond to
>                     olug
>
>
>
>     Are you using two of the same card type and trying to compile support
> into
> the kernel? My memory of linux is fading fast :-) but I recall having to
> append something in lilo to get this to go - try making the support modular
> and your problem may just go away.
>
> bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
>
> > Hi guys.
> >
> > Here's my situation.
> >
> > I have a box I'm loading up to be a firewall.  Bare bones install (no X,
> > etc).
> >
> > It's a 486/33 with 48Mb of Ram, and 1Gb of space.
> >
> > I have it loaded with Redhat 6.2.
> >
> > I downloaded 2.4.5 and compiled it for a 486 with all the Networking
> > options.  It boots fine.
> >
> > The problem is the ethernet card.  It doesn't seem to recognize it even
> > though I compiled support for it into the kernel.  It gives me a
> "Delaying
> > eth0 initialization" when I do an ifup eth0.  When I do an ifconfig
> command
> > to configure it it says "No such device".
> >
> > If I boot back to the 2.2 kernel it works fine.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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