[techtalk] Problems with RH6.1 & 2 NICs

[Dianna Gregory]

(I was subscribed on my home email but I guess that the mailing list doesn't 
like the date my emails have in them so it kept rejecting my emails...bleh)


Hello all
I am having some problems trying to get a 2nd NIC working in my Linux box.  I
have the first one working just fine,
and that NIC is a 3com Etherlink XL.  THe 2nd one is a Linksys Etherfast 10/100
and I had it in my WIn98 box working fine so I know the card is operable.  The
linksys website says to use the Tulip driver.  So this is waht I did...

vi /etc/conf.modules
add a line that says :
alias eth1 tulip

It detected the card correctly right after I put it in, btw.  It said it was
adding it and whatnot to the configuration.

So now, in dmesg it says:

eth0: 3Com 3Com Boomeranc (unknown version) at 0xe400, 00:50:da)08:de:d4, IRQ 9
   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
   MII tranceiver found at address 24, status 182d.
   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Unknown Tulip-style PCI ethernet chip type 11ad c115 detected: not configured.
VFS: DIsk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
Unknown Tulip-style PCI ethernet chip type 11ad c115 detected: not configured.
(and another 8 or so lines saying the exact same thing)


Then, in /var/log/messages it says:

Apr 30 19:13:59 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip.o:
init_module: Device or resource busy

And it's got that along with the Unknown Tulip style PCI ethernet chip type
11ad c115 detected: not configured lines in /var/log/messages.


I have an ifcfg-eth1 file that says:
DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.10

              
THese I put in when it detected the card and asked if I wanted to do the
network configs... and then it boots into linux and it like won't use the
driver or something.

Then if I type insmod tulip it says
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy



Does anyone have ANY advice? I have been working on this stupid box all week
and keep running into problems :( thanks in advance!!



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Dianna E Gregory
Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Columbus, OH	
614-341-2481
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