eth2 on A7N8X-E? (fedora2-test1)

[Bill Nottingham]

Lennart Jonsson (lelle2 at bonetmail.com) said: 
> I installed fedora2-test1 on my computer and everything (almost) works
> very well. However, I just cant seem to get eth2 to work. 
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# ifup eth2
> forcedeth device eth2 does not seem to be present, delaying
> initialization.
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth2
> # nVidia Corporation|nForce2 Ethernet Controller
> DEVICE=eth2
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> IPADDR=10.10.121.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> TYPE=Ethernet
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=no
> IPV6INIT=no
> 
> I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.1-1.65 to 2.6.4-1.298 hoping that this
> would help, but the results the same. 
> 
> I must admit that I'm quite confused on the mechanisms to get this
> working. If I look in:
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
> [...]
> alias eth2 forcedeth
> 
> and in:
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.dist 
> # default modutils aliases
> alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
> [...]
> install eth0 /bin/true
> [...]

Remove the /bin/true line from /etc/modprobe.conf.dist; also, add
the hardware address to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
in a manner like:

HWADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

Things should work better then.

Bill