RE : Nic getting weird name

Thanks for your quick reply.  See below.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Bogdan Costescu [mailto:bogdan.costescu-hEciA7+sKtudPOQpRHQ53DeJuz7u0hKX@public.gmane.org] 
> Envoyé : 12 novembre 2004 16:26
> À : Ugo Bellavance
> Cc : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [Tao-discuss] Nic getting weird name
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
> > Recently, the pci card stopped working, and I found out that the 
> > device name wasn't eth1 anymore, it was something like dev14848.  I
> 
> Are you also running Windows on the same hardware (dual boot) ? Some 
> of the drivers quietly modify the EEPROM on the card.
> 
> > tried re-detecting it with kudzu and it gave another dev*****
> 
> Could you please post the output of lspci run as root ?

[root@bibi root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Co
ntroller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 07)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)

> Could you disable kudzu (chkconfig kudzu off) and reboot ?

Done, no change.

> There are 
> some known interactions between kudzu and the 3C905 cards. In this 
> case, look in /var/log/messages for lines coming from the 
> 3c59x driver 
> which should detect both cards.

Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: 02:05.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x3000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:  00:04:75:c7:ad:c2, IRQ 17
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   product code 564e rev 00.6 date 09-20-02
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7809.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: 02:05.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: 02:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x3080. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:  00:e0:81:22:d1:64, IRQ 19
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   product code 0000 rev 00.6 date 00-00-00
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: 02:08.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
Nov 12 17:37:31 bibi kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

The product code, date and revision are funny on the second one...

> If this looks fine, you can 
> try to use 
> redhat-config-network to delete the wrong entry and create a new one.

I tried it, but I don't have X installed, so it complains.  I tried anyway, but I could only change parameters to eth0.  Nothing about the other nic.

Thanks,

> 
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