Bringing up 2nd NIC card

[David McInnis]

Thank you.  The drivers were in the wrong directory.  After I moved them
everything worked peachy.  Just one more question.

I have an identical machine that I am setting up as a mirror to the one
I just set up.  Can I use the same pci-scan.o and rtl8139.o files that I
just compiled or do I need to rebuild them on the mirror machine?

Also when I did 'modprobe rtl8139' I got the following message:

Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.4.10-12a/modules.dep

Is this significant?  I tried "touch" on the files, but I still get this
message.  

David McInnis



-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf
Of Ken Schweigert
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:31 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Bringing up 2nd NIC card

David,

In your /etc/modules.conf file put something like:
  alias eth1 rtl8139

You will also need to create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
with the appropriate interface and IP address.

Also, do a 'depmod -a' to recreate your dependancy file.  If you don't
see any errors you should be able to do 'modprobe rtl8139' and it will
load pci-scan and then rtl8139.

Then just do a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' and you should be
in business.

Hope this helps.

-- 
-Ken Schweigert, Aspiring Network Administrator
Byte Productions, LLC
http://www.byte-productions.com



On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:21:08AM -0800, David McInnis wrote:
> I am running YDL 2.1 with kernel 2.4.10-12a.
> 
> I have a network running on the integrated NIC that comes with my G4.
> 
> I have added a second NIC (MacSense by xsense that uses the Realtek
> (rtl8139) chipset.) to this machine.
> 
> I went to Web and found a driver, downloaded the source and compiled
> driver.  This compilation yielded 2 files:  pci-scan.o and rtl8139.o.
> 
> I then do:
> 
> insmod pci-scan.o
> insmod rtl8139.o
> 
> to bring up the interface.  Hey, it works.
> 
> My problem is this. Where do I need to call these in order for the
> interface to come up at boot?  I want both (the current eth0 and the
new
> eth1) to be activated at boot.  Will they be inserted in that order (I
> have tried to insert rtl8139.o without the pci-scan.o and it fails)?
> 
> Currently I have them in /lib/modules/2.4.10-12a/net.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David McInnis
> 
> 
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