How to find an Ethernet module name in Slackware 10.0?

[Jimmy Green]

Frank Peng wrote:
> Hello, gurus!
> 
> When I ifconfig, I can find eth0 there. No eth1. 

ifconfig -a shows all; ifconfig shows only those currently up.

> When
> I ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 then ifconfig, I can see both
> eth0 and eth1 there. I have configured rc.inet1.conf
> for the eth1 interface as:
> 
> IPADDRESS="10.0.0.1"
> MASK="255.255.255.0"
> GATEWAY=""
> DHCP="yes"
> ...
> 
> My guess is that the rc.inet1 program failed to bring
> the eth1 up.
> 
> When I dmesg, I can see one card is RealTek 8139. The
> other one is D-Link DFE-530 TXS FAST. When I lnsmod, I
> can seee 8139too there but no clue for the D-Link
> card. 
> 
> Now, please enlighten me, what is the module name for
> the D-Link card. It is already detected. Why we cannot
> find the module name? It is probed in the kernel, not
> my the rc.modules? If so, how can we do something like
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 ????
> in /etc/modules.conf ? 
> 

the kernel autoprobe is likely returning after finding the first card

see: BootPrompt-HOWTO

" Most Linux
   distributions use a bare bones kernel combined with a large selection
   of modular drivers.  The ether= only applies to drivers compiled
   directly into the kernel."

specifying ether=... as a _boot_parameter_ does not work with modules,,,
but it does work if a given driver is in the kernel.

when you load the correct module, i _think_ that your eth1 device
   may still point to nowhere..., as it does now...

	"ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 then ifconfig, I can see both
	 > eth0 and eth1 there"

a device (eg:eth1) is just a terminus like a mount point,,,
the kernel has to reference hardware_port ---> eth1 during init

you may have to compile the driver into the kernel for multihoming.
i defer to the wiser to for a better explanation...

> It seems we should not do any like that in Slackware
> 10.0. I am totally lost. 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Frank Peng. 
> 
> 


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Jimmy

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