[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble adding 2nd NIC

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

 Just look at the chip on the NIC.  Does it say "DEC Tulip"?  You ought to be
able to just run "insmod tulip" from the command line.  If it's not a tulip,
look in the lib/modules/`uname -r`/net for other NIC drivers and just try them.
Check out the documentationn in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking.

You don't need to be messing with initrd.
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TJ Bell <tjbell at usa.net> on 03/04/2000 12:51:32 PM

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Subject:  [NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble adding 2nd NIC



I'm having a bit of trouble adding a second NIC to a linux box that I
maintain.
Here's the setup:

Pentium system running SuSE 6.3
NIC: 3Com using 3c59x module -- working
NIC: Netgear 10/100 PCI whose Linux README that came with it says to use
tulip
     module -- not working

/proc/pci:
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
      Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable. Latency=66.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
      I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbffc00 [0xffbffc00].
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905 100bTX (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 15.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xf8c0 [0xf8c1].

/etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 tulip
options tulip options=0

/etc/rc.config:
INITRD_MODULES="3c59x tulip" # used to be INITRD_MODULES="3c59x"
                             # I modified it with a guess
NETCONFIG="_0 _1"
IPADDR_0="24.7.30.133"
IPADDR_1="192.168.0.1"
NETDEV_0="eth0"
NETDEV_1="eth1"
IFCONFIG_0="24.7.30.133 broadcast 24.7.30.255 netmask 255.255.255.128
up"
IFCONFIG_1="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
up"

When the system boots it spits out about 4 lines of information about
eth0..does 10 or so lines of more stuff, then does a line that says
something like "Setting up eth0..........Done".  Then it tries to load
the tulip driver and fails with that oh-so-useful error message "Device
or resource busy" (lame error...the only error I think it knows for
failing to load a module)  After boot and logging in, an `lsmod` shows
"3c59x   19008   1" so it's loaded...the maching can see the inside
network and vice-versa...it can see the internet and vice-versa, but
eth1 is not to be found 'cause it didn't load.

I shouldn't have to recompile the kernel should I.  No documentation
I've read  mentions doing that.  Is there something I'm missing??

ALL help is MUCH appreciated and thank you in advance.

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