network card not detected at boot

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Vu Pham wrote:
>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.

I've been using it for years, particularly when working with a
new version of Linux or UNIX to help me understand what the
system is doing.

>> 
>> 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.

I did an autoyast install on mine with ``insmod forcedeth'' in
the ``info'' file because I knew that was going to be found while
I wasn't positive about finding the Marvell driver.  Once I had
the system installed, it assigned eth0 to the Marvell driver, and
eth1 to the nVidia.  My SWAG (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess) is
that the order eth0/1 is determined by the MAC address of the NICs.

Bill
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