network card not detected at boot

[Vu Pham]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:33 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
> One thing I do to help figure out what's going on under the hood
> on systems is to create a timestamp file, run the vendor's admin
> tool to change something, the use ``find'' to see what's changed.
> 
> touch /tmp/timestamp
> yast2 # do something
> find /etc -type f -newer /tmp/timestamp > /tmp/changedfiles
> 
> The /tmp/changedfiles will contain a list of all files in the /etc
> directory that have been changed since the /tmp/timestamp file was touched.

Thanks. This is good trick. I can use it next time.

> 
> FWIW:  The system I'm typing this on is running SLES10 on an Asus A8N-SLI
> Deluxe main board, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ with dual
> 10/100/1000 NICs, one nVidea with the forcedeth.c driver, the other Marvell
> with the skge.c driver.  I've had no problems booting this and having it
> recognize both NICs.
> 

I think I have the same configuration with yours. Mine says Asys A8N SLI
Premium, AMD X2 Dual Core 4800 and the two NICs are suing the same
drivers as you listed. Not sure why the forcedeth is not loaded
automatically.

One thing I notice is when I first installed this system, I used only
eth0, and skip eth1. It is when I needed eth1 I found out it has the
boot problem. If I have a chance, I will reinstall this sytem ( with
another hard drive ) and set up those two cards at installation time to
see if the problem goes away.

Vu