network card not detected at boot

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 11:27, Vu Pham wrote:
>> MY worksstation Suse 10.1 x86-64 has two network cards :
>> -  eth0 device: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller
>> and  eth1 device: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
>>
>> Both of them are configured to start automatically at boot.
>>
>> Right after boot, only eth0 is detected an configured. To make eth1
>> works, I have to start yast to detect the network devices again, then
>> stop and start /etc/init.d/network.
>>
>> Is it a problem with Suse or the ethernet device or my settings ?
>>
>> Thanks for your advice ?
>
> Maybe you need to add a module for eth1  in   initrd??

Why would an initrd have NIC modules in it?  That seems kinda wasteful of 
resources.


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