topic Re: Cannot activate my second network card in Operating System - Linux

Cannot activate my second network card

map_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:59:20 GMT

Server : Proliant DL380

OS : Linux 7.3

When I try to activate Eth2, I've the following
error msg :

e1000 device does not seem to be present, delaying eth2 initialization

You will find attached to this mail a detail of operations and results.

Thanks for your help

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

Josef Forman — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:09:57 GMT

Hi,
first network card is eth0, so second card should be eth1.
Eth2 is third card.

PF

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

map_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:14:14 GMT

In fact, Eth2 is the port of a distinct dual port Ethernet card. Eth0 and Eth1 are well detected and activated by the system.

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:47:39 GMT

Deletc the lines in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
regarding this network adapter
and then rerun kudzu.
If it won't help - try to change the card with another (same model).

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

map_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:31:46 GMT

Kudzu didn't help.

I'm going to change the card to check if it is an hardware problem. I keep you informed...

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:59:22 GMT

Try the NIC out in a different box. If its not recognized its probably dead.

If its not dead, I'd check the configuration of the other two NIC cards and see if there is something silly like gateway in both cards. That can vastly interfere with networking on Linux.

SEP

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

Ross Minkov — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:17:47 GMT

map,

Check your /etc/modules.conf file.
My guess is you have something like this there.

# grep -i eth /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 e100
#alias eth2 e100

If that is the case then uncomment the line for eth2. If this line does't exist add it.

Regards,
Ross

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

map_1 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:55:52 GMT

No, the alias are ok, I have :

alias eth0 tg3
alias eth1 tg3
alias eth2 e1000

I succeed to solve the problem by unplugg
the faulty eth card and plugg it again carefully in the slot. The card is now detected by the system.

So it was just a stupid problem of hardware installation.

Thank for your help

A+

J.P. Sanche

Re: Cannot activate my second network card

map_1 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:06:52 GMT

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