[olug] eth0 troubles

[Jon]

It probably didn't get aliased as eth0.  Probably need to do something with lilo to make that happen.

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:28:50PM -0500, bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
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> Right now I only have one card in the machine (NE2000).  I am considering
> recompiling but since that is significant in time (make dep takes about 45
> minutes) I'd rather avoid that unless I screwed something up with the
> initial build.
> 
> My local guru advised me to compile the support in since I knew what I was
> using.  Is there a downside to compiling it in?
> 
> Bill
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>     Are you using two of the same card type and trying to compile support
> into
> the kernel? My memory of linux is fading fast :-) but I recall having to
> append something in lilo to get this to go - try making the support modular
> and your problem may just go away.
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> bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
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> > Hi guys.
> >
> > Here's my situation.
> >
> > I have a box I'm loading up to be a firewall.  Bare bones install (no X,
> > etc).
> >
> > It's a 486/33 with 48Mb of Ram, and 1Gb of space.
> >
> > I have it loaded with Redhat 6.2.
> >
> > I downloaded 2.4.5 and compiled it for a 486 with all the Networking
> > options.  It boots fine.
> >
> > The problem is the ethernet card.  It doesn't seem to recognize it even
> > though I compiled support for it into the kernel.  It gives me a
> "Delaying
> > eth0 initialization" when I do an ifup eth0.  When I do an ifconfig
> command
> > to configure it it says "No such device".
> >
> > If I boot back to the 2.2 kernel it works fine.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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