eth2 on A7N8X-E? (fedora2-test1)

[Lennart Jonsson]

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
[...]


This was generated by the installation, and I have no idea whether it
makes sense or not. 

I'm relatively new to Linux, and currently I havent got a clue on what
to do next. Anyone else had any success with this combination, or have
some hints on how to resolve the problem?


Kind regards
/Lennart