[ILUG] Two network cards

[Barry Flanagan]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 18:53, Mal McKay wrote:
> You could disable the onboard card in the bios.
> 

I have one of these boxes. You just need to compile the kernel with
CONFIG_E1000=y 

Works for me...

-Barry



> mal
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Treacy [mailto:delphi91 at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: 19 April 2004 18:07
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] Two network cards
> 
> 
> Having recently installed Linux onto a Dell 1600SC server, I have a niggling
> 
> problem.
> 
> The server contains an embedded Gigabit ethernet card, and when I went to 
> use that, I couldn't get it to work. Linux picks it up as eth0 but it 
> refused to allow anyone access the server. So, I put the card from the 
> previous server (a 10/100MB) into the server and deleted the reference to 
> the card. Everything was fine. The card is designated eth1 by Linux.
> 
> Anyway, I had occasion to reboot the server today and it found the Gigabit 
> card and installed it as eth0 again. Network failed to allow anyone to log 
> on.
> 
> It seems that if I have the Dell card installed, the network won't function,
> 
> and if I delete it, everything is fine.
> 
> Is there a way around this? I guess the obvious thing would be to get the 
> Dell card operating.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Mike
> 
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