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 -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...