[vortex] Pb. 3c900 Boomerang as second ethernet adapter with RH7.0

[thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr]

> > I cannot make it work. The system does not see it and seems
> > to be confused with the two adapters. The first adapter does
> > not work well either.
> 
> It seems to me like a misconfiguration of the networking.

More or less. Apparently, the embedded ethernet controller
(eth0, an Intel Pro/100 VM) was recognized by RH7 with the
wrong driver. As a consequence, the initialization of eth0
failed at startup and no eth0 device was created. Then, the
initialization of the Boomerang correctly loaded 3c59x but,
since the initialization of the embedded adapter failed, the
created device was named eth0 instead of eth1. Of course,
eth0 got the wrong IP address, no eth1 was seen, etc...

The correct driver for the embedded Intel adapter is e100.o
(not found on RH7). I found the source code of this driver on
the Intel site and rebuilt it (many compilation problems, but
this is another story).

After installing e100.o, eth0 (the embedded adapter) is correctly
initialized and 3c59x correctly creates an eth1. And everything
is fine. So, the culprit was the Intel Pro/100 VM, not the
Boomerang.

> > I configured the two adapters using linuxconf (do you know
> > a better command-line way?). Here is the resulting content
> > of /etc/modules.conf :
> 
> First of all, check to see that you don't also have a /etc/conf.modules
> file with a different content. I've seen this happening before...

There was no conf.modules.

> > When the system boots, none of these adapters is configured.
> > Doing 'ifconfig', only lo0 is here. Doing 'ifconfig -a',
> > I can see that eth0 is here but not started. But eth1
> > does not appear.
> 
> Check to see that you have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts two files
> called ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1; check their content, too.

They were correct.

Thank you Bogdan for your help,
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