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Topic: DSL doing eth0, eth1 - only have ONE card, Werd networking

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robgreene

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Posted: April 16 2005,17:42

Well, I shifted slots with no luck. I switched to my normal desktop line (which was working as of Wednesday when my laptop died - but that's another story!!).

I installed FreeBSD, and that looked to pickup the network just fine. It wouldn't boot, however, so I'm not 100% certain. I think it's because I stuck it on the 2nd harddrive and not the 1st. (Remember, this is really an old computer - the dates are 1993 or so.)

Anyway, I'm going to get FreeBSD working. But I'd rather get a more current version of Linux going - I'm much more familiar with it.

One more note - it looks that booting from the LiveCD does recognize one ethernet card - 'cat /proc/net/dev' yields a list with "lo" and "eth0" and that's it. "lsmod" gives 3c509 as being loaded. But the network doesn't work. When I installed DSL 1.0.1 to the harddisk, the kernel thinks I have two network interfaces (eth0 and eth1). This was after dropping the partition too.

TIA for any more suggestions!
-Rob

robgreene

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Posted: April 16 2005,21:10

Ok, corrections here:

1) FreeBSD does work. Network is ok. I don't ran out of inodes installing and don't have a graphic environment, so that stank, but I could ssh to another Linux box on the network and use links to browse. A solution, but not a good one.

2) With all prior configuration wiped from the drives (both needed to be reformatted to get FreeBSD to work), DSL still decides I have two network devices!

As asked before, here's the hardware:
* Not sure what the motherboard is - sorry. It is a VESA Local Bus machine, however. Gateway model 4DX33V.
* 4 cards in the machine:
- ISA Etherlink III 3c509b
- ISA Soundblaster (SB16, I think)
- VLB SIIG Fast EIDE Controller (Enhanced IDE Master VL)
- VLB Speedstar Pro
* Drives:
- MadDog CDRW, using secondary connector on SIIG card
- WD 340MB disk, primary connector on SIIG card; master
- WD 540MB disk, primary connector on SIIG card; slave
- Combo 3.5, 5.25 drive that came with computer

Because of the age of this computer, I'm using SmartBtMgr to boot from floppy and then boot from the CDROM. (Is this bad? Does DSL have a boot floppy that I can - or must - install from?)

What I did notice while putzing around:
* DSL autodetects the eth0 and eth1 devices. Neither work, and I don't know how to figure out what physical device DSL thinks eth0 or eth1 are.
* lsmod does show 3c509 driver loaded
* lsmod also shows USB related stuff as well as ieee1394 being loaded (could this be the network devices?). This still shows up after doing a "dsl noscsi nopcmcia nousb noagp noapm noapic nomce noddc" at the boot prompt.
* After removing the USB and ieee1394 from the loaded modules, the network devices still didn't load.
* I added an alias in /etc/modprobe.d/network of "alias eth0 3c509" but that didn't work at all.

This is all from the bootup. I haven't reinstalled DSL to the harddisk yet.

Suggestions?

Thanks!
-Rob

cbagger01

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Posted: April 17 2005,04:20

If it thinks that you have a firewire card it is possible that DSL thinks that your firewire card can be configured as a network interface.

I would try to boot with

failsafe

and then try manually modprobing the correct 3com driver and then try netcardconfig script from command line.

robgreene

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Posted: April 17 2005,14:07

Thanks - just tried it with no luck.

However, between last night and this morning, I thought I'd try Gentoo. Unfortunately, the 340MB + 540MB disk appear to be to small for a first time install (I have no clue where stuff gets installed). I'm a tad afraid how long a P83 install will really take, but that the heck, I don't have a computer of my own right now.

Gentoo also detected eth0 and eth1. Interesting? eth0 would not work but eth1 worked via DHCP. From there I could run links2 and surf the net. That's under a Linux kernel.

Could the older Soundblaster card be throwing everything off? I'm not really using it (this computer will go into the basement once it's functional). This is just so weird. Back in the day, this was running one of the first CDs of Slackware and then RedHat 2 - I don't remember any problems like this!!

robgreene

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Posted: April 17 2005,16:01

LOL, it's working now. I'm posting this from my way cool 48MB P83 machine!

I ripped out the sound card and booted in failsafe mode. All is well. I totally forgot that the interrupts (etc) are not managed at all. I'm a bit confused because I'm SURE is used to work under the older distribution, but whatever. I'm up and running.

Time to install DSL on the harddrive!

Thanks all!
-Rob

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