Evening Everyone:
I just recently did a reinstall of Red Hat 6.1. Before doing the install,
I put two new Ethernet cards in the machine, a 3Com Etherlink 10/100 Mbps
PCI (Model # 3c905C-TX-M) and a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI (3C90x family).
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption was that these cards
should use the 3c90x module. After the install finished, I looked in
conf.modules and saw the following:
alias eth0 3c59x
Oddly enough, my connection for eth0 seemed to come up fine. Well, I
changed the line in /etc/conf.modules to this:
alias eth0 3c90x
alias eth1 3c90x
and I rebooted the machine this morning before going to work. I noticed
that it seemed to take longer for both eth0 and eth1 to initialize, but
an ifconfig after boot-up showed both interfaces active and with no
errors. When I got home, eth0 was still up and running, but eth1 was no
longer active.
The only other thing that I could think to do was to add both Ethernet
cards to my lilo.conf, so I added the following entry to that:
append="ether=10,0xec00,eth0 ether=15,0xdc00,eth1"
and I re-ran lilo to make sure the changes took affect.
Did I do something incorrect here by changing what the installer detected
my card as? Can both my Ethernet use the 3c59x setting without any
performance loss on the cards? How do I tell what specific modules my
cards are using? I'm using the default kernel and have not recompiled it.
Thanks for any insight.
- Mike
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