network card not detected at boot

Vu Pham vu
Mon Oct 16 11:55:58 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:08 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> 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 ?
> 
> next time, do lsmod before then after you get eth1 working.  I'm
> willing to bet the module doesn't load.  If that's the case, you may
> have a file like /etc/modules that will allow you to tell the system
> which modules to load prior to doing anything else.  That may be all
> you need.  Note:  watch carefully to see if YAST passes any arguments
> to the driver.  If so, you'll need to include those as part of the
> automagic loading.
> 

David,

Yes, I am trying to do it. In Suse, it seems they use modprobe.conf
instead of modules.conf. I cannot find that file but I found
out /etc/modprobe.conf is similar to it and working on this modproblem
right now.

Vu





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