[SLE] Boot up freezes at second Ethernet card

grbhat＠exocore.com

8 Mar 2000 8 Mar '00

19:06

Greetings, I rebuilt my kernel to compile in ne2k-pci support. I have two ethernet cards, both ne2k (They are SMC3200 actually). While both NICs are correctly detected during the initial bootup sequence, my machine freezes when it comes to initialising the second ethernet interface (eth1). I am using SuSE 6.3. I went through the mail archives and the closest I could get was an incident where ne2k-pci cards failed on modprobe since 8329 modules were not included in the initrd dependency in 6.3. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks, Gurunandan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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jpennington＠atipa.com

8 Mar 8 Mar

21:46

Are the cards sharing a single IRQ? Have you tried moving one card up or down a slot on the motherboard? One of the advantages to a *modular* kernel design is the ability to troubleshoot problems like this one. Modular kernels don't run any slower than purely monolithic kernels when used in something like a firewall/router, so don't roll your eyes at the idea. ;) -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x110 __V On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

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I rebuilt my kernel to compile in ne2k-pci support. I have two ethernet cards, both ne2k (They are SMC3200 actually). While both NICs are correctly detected during the initial bootup sequence, my machine freezes when it comes to initialising the second ethernet interface (eth1). I am using SuSE 6.3.

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grbhat＠exocore.com

9 Mar 9 Mar

01:23

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:

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Are the cards sharing a single IRQ?

No. The first card gets 10 and the second 11. I even tried using a kernel option ether=0,0,eth1.

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Have you tried moving one card up or down a slot on the motherboard?

Let me do that and get back to you.

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One of the advantages to a *modular* kernel design is the ability to troubleshoot problems like this one. Modular kernels don't run any slower than purely monolithic kernels when used in something like a firewall/router, so don't roll your eyes at the idea. ;)

With modular support for ne2k-pci, the cards are detected properly, the interfaces eth0 and eth1 show up with "ifconfig -a", but I cannot ping machines on either network. My routes are configured properly. The output of "route -n" gives the following: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 202.54.17.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 202.54.17.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 Thanks and hope to sort this out soon. Gurunandan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

gaf＠blu.org

8 Mar 8 Mar

22:13

I also have 2 ne2K adapters, Linksys and Realtech, and have no problem. Could you possibly have an IRQ conflict? If you boot to single user mode, you can check the actualy IRQs by either watching the bootup or by checking /var/logs/boot.msg Also, not that you might need to set up an alias in /etc/modules.conf for the 2 cards. On 9 Mar 00, at 0:36, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

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I rebuilt my kernel to compile in ne2k-pci support. I have two ethernet cards, both ne2k (They are SMC3200 actually). While both NICs are correctly detected during the initial bootup sequence, my machine freezes when it comes to initialising the second ethernet interface (eth1). I am using SuSE 6.3. Jerry Feldman Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org

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jlm＠compgen.com

22:43

Jerry Feldman writes:

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I also have 2 ne2K adapters, Linksys and Realtech, and have no problem. Could you possibly have an IRQ conflict?

This should not be a problem if both are PCI devices. The BIOS should negotiate for the IRQs at boot-up.

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If you boot to single user mode, you can check the actualy IRQs by either watching the bootup or by checking /var/logs/boot.msg Also, not that you might need to set up an alias in /etc/modules.conf for the 2 cards.

On 9 Mar 00, at 0:36, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

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I rebuilt my kernel to compile in ne2k-pci support. I have two ethernet cards, both ne2k (They are SMC3200 actually). While both NICs are correctly detected during the initial bootup sequence, my machine freezes

A hard lockup? No response from keyboard? Or does it appear to waiting for something?

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when it comes to initialising the second ethernet interface (eth1). I am using SuSE 6.3. Jerry Feldman Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org

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grbhat＠exocore.com

9 Mar 9 Mar

01:27

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jesse Marlin wrote:

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This should not be a problem if both are PCI devices. The BIOS should negotiate for the IRQs at boot-up.

Thank you for conforming this.

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A hard lockup? No response from keyboard? Or does it appear to waiting for something?

No. Keyboard is dead, and I have to reboot from a floppy to get back. Gurunandan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

wayne＠aeonxe.com

02:03

How about trying out one card at a time? First check if both cards are functioning by itself. Then config the both cards manually. That is using modprobe, ifconfig and route commands to troubleshoot. Please remember to turn off network configuration in YAST. "Gurunandan R. Bhat" wrote:

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Greetings,

I rebuilt my kernel to compile in ne2k-pci support. I have two ethernet cards, both ne2k (They are SMC3200 actually). While both NICs are correctly detected during the initial bootup sequence, my machine freezes when it comes to initialising the second ethernet interface (eth1). I am using SuSE 6.3.

I went through the mail archives and the closest I could get was an incident where ne2k-pci cards failed on modprobe since 8329 modules were not included in the initrd dependency in 6.3.

I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks, Gurunandan

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