Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (190 mails)

[Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 14, Benno Aichele wrote:

> hi list.
> i have a IBM rs/6000 Type 7248-133 with suse linux 7.1
> ppc running on it. the mainboard contains a onboard
> NIC type AMD pc Lane. i dont want to use this NIC and
> intend to turn it off. i dont own the system managment
> disk so i cant deactivate the interface.
> here is my problem:
> i bought a (pci)hub network interface card with rtl
> 8029 chipset. i want to run this card as eth0. but
> every time a laod a driver for this card the onboard
> card uses this driver, and i have to load a second
> driver for the hub card. now it becomes automatically
> eth1.
> i am a linux newbie and dont know how to deactivate
> the onboard interface or switch the devices so that
> the onboard interface becomes eth1 and the additional
> pci card becomes eth0

I dont know if you can turn off the internal ethernet.
The driver for your network card is compiled into the kernel.
what is wrong with eth1?

If you still want/need eth0 you have to recompile the kernel.
Install lx_suse.rpm 
cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make menuconfig
go to network devices -> 10/100 mbit
change all drivers to modules with "m"
safe the config
make dep clean zImage modules modules_install

copy the arch/ppc/boot/zImage file to the boot partition with dd
make sure your modules.conf has the eth0 aliases.



Gruss Olaf

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