NIC problem

[Edward]

Aseem Khurana wrote:
> Following is the info from lspci which seems related in this case. Any idea?
> 
> ==========
> 01:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
>         Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-538TX 10/100 Ethernet Adapter
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Step
> ping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort
> - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: I/O ports at c000
>         Region 1: Memory at d5001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
> PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3h
> ot+,D3cold+)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139
> C+ (rev 10)
>         Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Step
> ping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort
> - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
>         Region 0: I/O ports at c400
>         Region 1: Memory at d5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
> PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3h
> ot+,D3cold+)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> ========== 

Well, at least lspci is seeing two cards, and none of the resources seem 
to be conflicting.

Could yo please post your /etc/modprobe.conf?

It may be as simple as adding another alias line for eth1?

Regards,
Ed.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Edward
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:45 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: NIC problem
> 
> 
> 
> Aseem Khurana wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have an IBM NetVista p3/800Mhz/rtl-8138 on-board NIC machine running 
>>linux 9.
>> 
>>The on-board lan card on the machine was working perfectly, until I 
>>added a DLINK nic to it, kudzu identified the DLINK card, now shows 
>>configured as eth0, but there is no information shown regarding the 
>>on-board nic in ifconfig/kudzu regarding possible eth1. Where am I going
> 
> wrong?
> 
> Check the BIOS for ethernet settings. Some have on, off and auto settings.
> If yours can be set this way (a lot cannot) and it is set to auto, set it to
> on instead.
> 
> I've seen some PCs where the addition of a nic disabled the onboard one.
> 
> Failing that, what does lspci say?
> 
> IRQ conflicts?
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
>