[NTLUG:Discuss] Aberrations when connecting to Internet with Knoppix V5.0.1

[Terry Henderson]

I agree with Patric and David - if it is displaying information about
eth0 and eth1, there is more than likely another NIC in that machine
that  you are unaware of.  Is there a wireless NIC or firewire device,
or ornboard something-or-other, or...... ?

Try:
dmesg |grep eth

See if that tells you anything.

On 8/14/06, David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> Russ wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need opinions and advice on something I noticed just a day or so ago.
> >
> > I've been Googling for indications that others may have seen this, but
> > have found nothing.
> >
> > I know very little about the Ethernet and networking in general and I
> > noticed something strange when I booted with a new copy of Knoppix
> > V5.0.1.
> >
> > When I booted everything looked normal until it got to the process of
> > connecting to the Internet.  At that point I got:
> >
> > Service eth0 detected, DHCP Broadcasting for IP (Backgrounding)
> > Service eth1 detected, DHCP Broadcasting for IP (Backgrounding)
> >
> > Previously, when booting with version 4.02.0 I had seen only  the
> > first line involving "eth0".
> >
> > So I booted the same PC with Knoppix V4.02.0, Knoppix V3.7, and Ubuntu
> > Live V5.1.  In these cases, I saw only
> >
> > Service eth0 detected, DHCP Broadcasting for IP (Backgrounding).
> >
> > So I took the experiment one step further and booting Knoppix V5.0.1
> > and Knoppix V4.02.0 on a neighbor's PC.  The neighbor is hooked to the
> > Internet via Comcast and has a router in line.  In both cases, on the
> > message involving eth0 was displayed.
> >
> > I returned home, booted with Knoppix V5.0.1 and saw that my wife's PC
> > still displays "eth0" and "eth1" when booting.  Her PC has only one
> > NIC which is connected to a Comcast modem via a router as is my
> > neighbor's PC.
> >
> > Is this "eth1" message something I should check out?  How best would I do that?
> >
> > I should point out that I'm using Knoppix on my wife's PC because my
> > Linux PC (running Ubuntu) is completely unresponsive since I returned
> > from a six week vacation.  Not even a beep or a light.  I'm in the
> > process of investigating the problem.  It's been suggested that my HD
> > may have locked and I may have to give a bit of a knock.
> >
>
>
> Does the computer showing two ethernet interfaces have a firewire port?
> This could be ethernet over firewire.
>
>
> Try looking at
>
> dmesg | less
>
> or
>
> lsmod | grep ^mii
>
>
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