Re: device eth1 not present?

[Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Chris Mohler wrote:

> From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: device eth1 not present?
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>
> > # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> > alias eth0 sis900
> > alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sis
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> > options snd-card-0 index=0
> > options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> > alias eth1 8139too
>
>
> It looks like eth0 is aliased to the SiS adapter, and eth1 to the RTL 
> adapter.
>
>
> > # dmesg | grep eth
> > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde878000, 00:0d:88:37:fa:22, IRQ 177
> > eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
> > eth1: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xb000, IRQ 185, 00:16:ec:1c:8e:11.
>
>
> Here it looks like eth0 is the RTL, and eth1 is the SiS.
>
>
> I'm no network guru - just thought I'd make that observation.
>
> HTH,
> Chris


Thanks, Chris.  I went the win2k approach and did a fresh install (as 
there was no data involved) the other night.  Not the best solution, but 
it seems to have fixed it.


thanks,

Thufir