Nic Help

belkens · 12-09-2004, 07:47 PM

i have two nic the built in and pci nic the my problem is i cant use both of them coz when i command ifconfig only 1 nic is present. what command i will use to install the other one.

k2merlinsix · 12-09-2004, 08:04 PM

have you tried 'ifconfig eth1' ?

belkens · 12-09-2004, 08:07 PM

yap but it says device not found!

michaelk · 12-09-2004, 08:31 PM

If the PCI network adapter was present when you installed the OS then it will be assigned eth0 and the integrated adapter will be eth1. Post the make and model number of the motherboard as well as the output from the console command:
/sbin/lspci

From this information we can should be able to determine the correct module that needs to be loaded.

belkens · 12-09-2004, 08:56 PM

root@server:/usr/local/squid/libexec# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 70)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

michaelk · 12-09-2004, 09:18 PM

Look at the /etc/modules.conf file. Does it show
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 via-rhine

belkens · 12-09-2004, 09:26 PM

the two of them does not exist

scuzzman · 12-12-2004, 01:35 AM

had a similar problem -
try putting the PCI nic into another slot - what's happening is the computer is not recognizing
you can then verify its existence with lspci
if that doesnt work, the drivers are proabably not installed. this can be fixed with kernel modules.

rhinoss · 12-12-2004, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by scuzzman
had a similar problem -
try putting the PCI nic into another slot - what's happening is the computer is not recognizing
you can then verify its existence with lspci
if that doesnt work, the drivers are proabably not installed. this can be fixed with kernel modules.

If both adapters are showing up in lspci, what benefit will it be to move the card to another slot?
Just so I'm not misunderstood,I'm purely curious to know why, I'm not trying to argue