Re: [PLUG] eth card identification

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I just ran into this problem the other day.

Basically, I would load one driver at a time and get that card working
then the other.

In debian you can force the proper loading by putting a file called

eth0 in

/etc/modutils

The file says:

cat /etc/modutils/eth0

alias eth0 tulip

also

$ cat eth1

alias eth1 sis900

Next run:

update-modules

Now you know which is which.

No need to open case unless you physically do not know what card is which.

Fred


Fred Ollinger (follinge@diadig.com)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jason Costomiris wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:14:20 -0500, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> > what tool can I use to identify?  Strangely, I have both cards now
> > configured for lan, rp-pppoe works anyway, and samba won't start.
>
> Probably the simplest way that doesn't involve opening up the machine
> to look at the MAC address on the cards is to just unplug one of them
> and see which network croaks.  As long as this isn't a
> mission-critical machine we're talking about here, you should be able
> to do this without causing a lot of trouble..
>
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