hello, I am running fedora 4 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4smp I am having problems adding a second RTL-8169 G GB Nic card when the system boots it says "can not change name of eth2 to eth1 file exists does not even try to install load eth2 on the ifconfig -a (see below) there is a device dev5036 . Not sure what that is Thanks for any help #====================================================== cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth1 r8169 alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 alias eth0 8139too #====================================================== when i do a lspci -vx i can see 01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 225 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at cffff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at c0020000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00: ec 10 69 81 17 00 b0 02 10 00 00 02 20 40 00 00 10: 01 d0 00 00 00 f4 ff cf 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 30: 00 00 fc cf dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 20 40 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 233 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at cffff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at c0030000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00: ec 10 69 81 17 00 b0 02 10 00 00 02 20 40 00 00 10: 01 d4 00 00 00 f8 ff cf 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 30: 00 00 fd cf dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 20 40 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 3030:5032 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 217 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at cffffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at c0040000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 00: ec 10 39 81 07 00 90 02 10 00 00 02 00 40 00 00 10: 01 d8 00 00 00 fc ff cf 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 30 32 50 30: 00 00 fe cf 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 20 40 ====================================================== # ifconfig -a dev5036 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:68:E6:2F BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:225 Base address:0x4400 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:7D:7A:A2 inet addr:66.208.187.240 Bcast:66.208.187.255 Mask:255.255.255.128 inet6 addr: fe80::208:a1ff:fe7d:7aa2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:40245 (39.3 KiB) TX bytes:48926 (47.7 KiB) Interrupt:217 Base address:0xcc00 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:65:8C:B4 inet addr:192.168.0.159 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fe65:8cb4/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:71 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4854 (4.7 KiB) TX bytes:5262 (5.1 KiB) Interrupt:233 Base address:0x6800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2246 (2.1 KiB) TX bytes:2246 (2.1 KiB) lo:0 Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:66.208.187.10 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)