Re: Problem with Red Hat 6.2 and two ethernet cards

Cota Carrasco Antonio <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:52:54 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.zoot
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I am not sure,  but I supouse you installed the  RedHat as a
workstation  (gnome o KDE). You need install it as a Server.

bye......


"Reginaldo O. Andrade" wrote:

> Hi, folks!
>      I'm a network administrator typing from Brazil and I'm facing a
> crazy problem with Red Hat 6.2.
>      I installed two ethernet cards (already tried a lot of models of
> 3Com (905b, 905c, 980) and also Realtek (8129, 8139)) on a
> PIII-1.13GHz, and the situation is the following: - The cards doesn't
> work if both are enable, but if I disabled (ifdown) one, the other
> begins to respond to ping;
> - I'm using static IPs on both interfaces (eth0 is 200.251.242.1 and
> eth1 is 10.0.0.1);
> - Ifconfig detects both (eth0 and eth1) at irq10 and irq11,
> respectively;
> - I tried to swap the cards to different slot positions to avoid
> conflicts, but fails;
> - There's no conflict between the cards, cause I tried to install
> other versions of Red Hat (7.2, 7.3) and the machine works well;
> - I tried to compile the driver sources into the kernel instead of
> modules, but anyway without success;
> - I also tried to upgrade the original kernel (2.2.14-5.0) to the
> newer version (2.4.20). Guess what? Same problem;
> - At last, I tried to do all these things in a complete differente
> machine expecting hardware incompatibilities... Same situation;
> Has anybody experienced similar problems using two ethernet cards with
> Red Hat 6.2? Am I doing something stupid? Is there some secret in this
> version that I don't know?
>      I would like to justify that I need too much that this thing
> works because I have an outdated commercial software that runs well
> just on Red Hat 6.2.      Please, somebody help me! I would be greatly
> thankful.
>      Happy new year! PS: Sorry about my poor english :-)
> Reginaldo O. Andrade
> [email protected]

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I am not sure,&nbsp; but I supouse you installed the&nbsp; RedHat as a
workstation&nbsp; (gnome o KDE). You need install it as a Server.
<p>bye......
<br>&nbsp;
<p>"Reginaldo O. Andrade" wrote:
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<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hi,
folks!</font></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm a network
administrator typing from Brazil and I'm facing a crazy problem with Red
Hat 6.2.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I installed
two ethernet cards (already tried a lot of models of 3Com (905b, 905c,
980) and also Realtek (8129, 8139)) on a PIII-1.13GHz, and the situation
is the following:</font></font>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-
The cards doesn't work if both are enable, but if I disabled (ifdown) one,
the other begins to respond to ping;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- I'm using static IPs on both interfaces
(eth0 is 200.251.242.1 and eth1 is 10.0.0.1);</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- Ifconfig detects both (eth0 and
eth1) at irq10 and irq11, respectively;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- I tried to swap the cards to different
slot positions to avoid conflicts, but fails;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- There's no conflict between the
cards, cause I tried to install other versions of Red Hat (7.2, 7.3) and
the machine works well;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- I tried to compile the driver sources
into the kernel instead of modules, but anyway without success;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- I also tried to upgrade the original
kernel (2.2.14-5.0) to the newer version (2.4.20). Guess what? Same problem;</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- At last, I tried to do all these
things in a complete differente machine expecting hardware incompatibilities...
Same situation;</font></font>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Has anybody experienced similar problems using two ethernet cards with
Red Hat 6.2? Am I doing something stupid? Is there some secret in this
version that I don't know?</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I would like
to justify that I need too much that this thing works because I have an
outdated commercial software that runs well just on Red Hat 6.2.</font></font>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Please, somebody help me! I would be greatly thankful.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Happy new
year!</font></font>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>PS: Sorry about
my poor english :-)</font></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Reginaldo O. Andrade</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></font></font></blockquote>

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