As they said in a movie I saw last night on HBO "Learn it, live it, love
it".
That applies to paying attention the hardware compatibility list and looking
closely at the Rev on the cards... 3c905-TX Rev B is NOT compatible with
Linux.
Unfortunately, only one of my cards ISN'T a Rev B, the other being a fully
compatible Rev A, which is why I was so confused.... but I did inherit a
few eePro100s just yesterday so I've now got my Master "Up to Snuff". (For
those who are curious, I got them from the same boss who gave me the 10 GB
drive.
He really owes me, and he's trying to pay up)
Thanks for all the help from everyone who gave suggestions... I learned
a lot, and picked up more than a few tips, including that one.
Thanks to everyone!
Bill Ward
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Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:52 AM
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Subject: RE: Two NICs? [Update]
Ok, first I want to thank everyone for the help they've given me... I've
learned a few things, been retaught a few things, and picked up at least two
snazzy new tricks to help diagnose problems.
To update: After much gnashing of teeth, I have diagnosed that there were
at least three errors... unfortunately. The first, which was the original,
all by itself, killer, was that somehow, the act of tightening the second
nic down into the case caused it to unseat.... So, I could "prove" that the
card was seated properly, button up the case, and it wasn't seated properly.
I have fixed this.
The second was a problem with the IRQs, as was mentioned. The first Nic was
IRQ3, the second wanted to be 3 as well... this shouldn't be a problem, but
some of the config/test tools said it was... I've moved the second nic to
IRQ9.
The last is the most perplexing, and is still unsolved, but I'm hoping I can
fix it from here... now NEITHER nic will initialize during bootup, with both
giving a "delaying initialization" message.... I'm going to go back and
revisit some of the early suggestions to see if I can fix this.
Unfortunately, I haven't had a lot of time to work on it since Thursday, and
with Y2K being next week, I'm going to be swamped for week or so... I'll let
folks know when I solve the problem once and for all, and let everyone know
the solution.
Thanks again!
Bill Ward
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 3:01 PM
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Subject: Two NICs?
Ok, folks, somehow I'm having a brain freeze. I'm having trouble getting
two NICs working in a single box together. Here's the setup:
RH5.2 (Stock, no new software out of the box)
P133, 40MB
2 3COM 3C590-TX Fast Ethernet Cards
Everything else is probably irrelevant hardware-wise.
I'm trying to setup eth0 using DHCP as my main interface to the box (named
Woodstock). The DHCP is working fine.
On the other side, I'm trying to use eth1 with a fixed address (10.0.0.1) to
a subnet (Woodstock) as Master (yes, if you are thinking Beowulf, you're
right).
During bootup, eth0 initializes properly and all is bright and gay. Then
it's eth1's turn, but instead of booting, it says "Delaying initializing
eth1".
OooooK. So, I try ifcfg-eth1 up and get an error that the card doesn't
exist. The file is in place, though, so at least Linux recognizes that the
nic is THERE.....
I have NOT recompiled the kernel, so the fact that there are two identical
cards has me thinking that perhaps my problem lies in not having an alias to
load a second copy of the driver for the card... but can that be it? And
how would I need to configure that? I don't want to hose the system with an
incorrect configuration.
Bill Ward
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