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petrjanda
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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: 2 NIC's ans Gentoo |
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Im installing Gentoo on a computer with 2 NIC's. Both supported by the kernel (I think Realtek 8139 chip or some). But when I boot with live CD, in /etc/init.d/ there is only net.eth0 but no net.eth1. When I do dmesg | grep eth, it finds both eth0 and eth1. How do I get it to load the other NIC?
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gringo
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:33 am Post subject: |
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You can configure both nics with the net-setup script or edit the /etc/conf.d/net script.
If you only have one net.eth0 script in /etc/init.d just copy it to net.eth1 and all will be fine. |
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petrjanda
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| gringo wrote: | You can configure both nics with the net-setup script or edit the /etc/conf.d/net script.
If you only have one net.eth0 script in /etc/init.d just copy it to net.eth1 and all will be fine. |
are you sure I can just copy net.eth0 to net.eth1 ?
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gringo
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:58 am Post subject: |
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yes, have a look to the gentoos install guide
As said, the main configuration is in /etc/conf.d/net, not in the net.ethx wrappers. |
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jonnevers
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | You can configure both nics with the net-setup script or edit the /etc/conf.d/net script.
If you only have one net.eth0 script in /etc/init.d just copy it to net.eth1 and all will be fine. |
this is correct, also during the install it may be a mute issue to set up both cards, as i've found that after making a new kernel and booting it, the cards *may* be detected in a different order then what the liveCD's kernel does.... just something I ran into a couple of times, and would have to go and switch all eth0 for eth1 and vice versa.
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u2mike
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| What I did for my network cards is compiled them as modules. Then simply listed the modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 in the order I want. The first module listed is loaded first and will be assigned as eth0. |
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well, it depends on the cards... If you have 2 identical cards, you're right, but some drivers take just a second longer to initialize then the other. I don't know if the modprobing on startup is forked, but if it is, you might have you networkcards switching at boot every time 
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