adding a 2nd ethernet card under linux

[Deceiver]

Ok first off I'm new to Linux. I'm running RedHat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp. I'm trying to add a second ethernet card (Cisco Aironet). I'm fairly certain the drivers are installed. I don't think the card is being detected. I added the module info through linuxconf. I have

alias eth1 airo.o

in conf.modules. lilo.conf also has

append = "ether=0,0,eth1"

modprobe eth1 returns that it can't locate module eth1. The logs in linuxconf show

Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network reload
> Bringing up device eth1 Delaying eth1 initialization
> [FAILED]
along with other things that return OK.

Any help regarding this would be great appreceiated! Thanks

 

[doug]

Take a look at the output from ifconfig, does it show two cards?
Also look at the output of dmesg.

Try these links as well:
http://www.scyld.com/expert/multicard.html

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

 

[Deceiver]

Thanks for the links. I think I got it working because now it shows up through dmesg and ifconfig and I can ping the ip I gave it internally from the same machine. I think what I did wrong was specify the exact name in the conf.modules (i.e. /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/pcmcia/airo.o) and instead airo was all that was needed.

Thanks again