OK, More updates on my struggles to get two NICs working at once. I bought a 16 port switch and one more NIC card. Both are netgear. I tried the NIC with each of the other then by itself and aparently there is no driver for it built in. I went to their website and there are 2 linux drivers one for RedHat 7.1 and another for older RedHat versions. I d/l both and all refer to 2.4 kernel so maybe I want to avoid using this NIC card with Linux for now.
I noted some directions on installing the Netgear card and they worked for the 3Com cards that I already had. Here is what was needed: 1. ifconfig eth1 192.168.111.1 2. using net.conf set up some permenant parms there for setting up at each bootup. Now that I have two NICs running, is the default settings for router, firewall, qos, etc. workable? are there functional defaults ? I looked at some iptables and this is new stuff for me. Somewere in my reading I got the idea that there were 4 levels in qos where P2P was the lowest and VoIP was the highest priority. What web areas have discussions on adjusting routing and firewalls ? Adjusting qos settings ? Is someone able to go out on a limb and suggest that the defaults are pretty decent for normal "home" lan use even with one PC doing P2P at same time as VoIP and browsing on multiple PCs? Rich Rich Sias wrote: > OK, I upgraded the bios today. > Rebooted, hmm still only one ethx card active. > > Here is the text at boot up: > PCI Found IRQ11 for device 0000:00:9.0 > 3c59x Donald Becker & others etc... > 0000:00:9.0:3Com PCI 3c595 Vortex 100BaseTX at 0xe400 Vers1.1.19 > 0000:00:9.0:Overriding PCI Latency timer(CFLT) setting of 32, new > value is 24.8 > PCI: Found IRQ10 for device 0000:00:0b.0 > 0000:00:0b.0:3Com PCI 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane at 0xe800. Vers1.1.19 > Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13(May 11,2002) > checked /dev/hda1 > Unexpected filesystem inconsistency on /dev/hda1 - (use?) e2fsk manually. > checking /dev/sda1 > going to remlevel etc.... > Using /lib/modules/2.6.13.2-AstLinux-geni586b/kernel/drivers/net/ etc... > it continues with installing hdlc (btw what is hdlc ?) > later I see: > PCI: Found IRQ11 for device 0000:00:09.0 > debug sending discover > debug sending discover > debug sending select for 192.168.2.7... > into lease of 192.168.2.7 otained, lease time-1 > > Then it finishes booting. > After loging into root, I do ifconfig. There is only eth0 and no eth1. > If I do: cat /proc/interrupts , there is NO entry for IRQ10, (why?). > Nothing else is using IRQ10 at all ! I will try plugging in a spare > ATA to have something connected to the 2nd NIC card in case it needs > something active to be booted. > > Anyone have other suggestions to get both NICs active upon boot up > with IDE/CF card and astlinux ? > > Rich Sias > > Rich Sias wrote: > >> I can get rid of conflict with eth0 by adding kernal boot parm: >> livecd acpi=noirq >> NOW, I will get a conflict with eth1 on same IRQ 11 being held by >> acpi. I am about ready to pay for a bios upgrade that supports "acpi >> 2.0" in hopes that I can get the NICs to separate from the acpi in >> their need for IRQ11. >> >> Are there anyway to get both NICs and the acpi to boot up peaceably >> with astlinux ? >> >> I am about to start using my IDE/CF adapter, I think I got a boot >> once just recent and noticed the same NIC vs acpi conflicts. >> >> Rich >> > > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
