network card not detected at boot

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 16 October 2006 12:49, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

It's only a resource used at boot time...     and yes, I've had to put a nic 
module in initrd before to solve this type of problem.