Network Card SMC2635W (ADM8211 Chipset) Setup

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ian Wallace wrote:

> Thanks very much to everyone for the suggestions.  I've been trying some
> of the ideas on the list and here's where I am.
> 
> I tried the newer driver (1.05 instead of 1.03) same difference, loads,
> scans, can't find anything.
> 
> I should point out that this is a *laptop* and that I sometimes use a
> directly wired interface (shows up as eth0 as I would expect) and then
> sometimes I pop that card out of the pcmcia slot and insert the
> wireless.
> 
> Even after switching the modules.conf and adding this:
> 
> alias eth0 xirc2ps_cs
> alias eth1 adm8211
> 
> The wireless card *always* shows up as eth0.  I've rebooted with the
> card inserted, and it's still showing up as eth0.  Any idea *why* that
> would be the case?  Where could I look to resolve that?

Ah.. both your wired and wireless are pcmcia cards - and you use only
one - but not both at the same time?

In that case I would remove the aliases from /etc/modules.conf - and
have just one config - ifcfg-eth0 with the wireless settings (will
work for the wired card as well).

However - I'll make sure that the HWADDRESS is removed from this config
(this way the same settings work with both wired and wireless)

Satish