[ILUG] Two network cards

[Mal McKay]

You could disable the onboard card in the bios.

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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