On Saturday 01 November 2008 17:17, sean darcy wrote:
On F9, I have 3 interface cards:
lspci | grep Eth
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex]
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
The kernel assigns both the Realtek cards a device:
dmesg | grep Real
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc814000, 00:48:54:8b:ab:29, IRQ 11
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc8b8000, 00:60:67:70:cc:95, IRQ 11
but not the 3Com card:
dmesg | grep eth
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc814000, 00:48:54:8b:ab:29, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc8b8000, 00:60:67:70:cc:95, IRQ 11
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x43E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
though the kernel does see it:
dmesg | grep -B 2 3Com
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0d.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
0000:00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c595 Vortex 100baseTx at 0001e800.
It's hard to configure with a device name (:
sean
Hi Sean. I'm no network guru, but as nobodies posted back yet...
I see the 3c59x driver
in /lib/modules/2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686/kernel/drivers/net. Unless it's broken,
and won't load.
Does /sbin/lsmod show it as a loaded module?
Looking in /etc/modprobe.conf, you should see alias lines for the 2 realtek
cards. Presuming there is no alias line for the 3c59x, you could simply add a
line for it as below.
I take the comment above back, as having just looked in /etc/modprobe.conf on
my F9 install, all that is there are lines related to my soundcard, that I
have set, although on earlier versions of Fedora the alias line was there for
my 8139too module.
That aside, you could still add an alias line for the 3c59x module, and reboot
after adding it. See below.
alias eth2 3c59x
Interesting that the machine I have FC2 installed on has a 3com card using the
same driver.
Just some suggestions.
Nigel.