device eth1 not present?

[Thufir]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Chris Mohler wrote:

> From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: device eth1 not present?
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> 
>> # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>> alias eth0 sis900
>> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sis
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
>> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>> alias eth1 8139too
>
>
> It looks like eth0 is aliased to the SiS adapter, and eth1 to the RTL 
> adapter.
>
>
>> # dmesg | grep eth
>> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde878000, 00:0d:88:37:fa:22, IRQ 177
>> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
>> eth1: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xb000, IRQ 185, 00:16:ec:1c:8e:11.
>
>
> Here it looks like eth0 is the RTL, and eth1 is the SiS.
>
>
> I'm no network guru - just thought I'd make that observation.
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
>


Thanks, Chris.  I went the win2k approach and did a fresh install (as 
there was no data involved) the other night.  Not the best solution, but 
it seems to have fixed it.


thanks,

Thufir