 | | | nic swap? | nic swap? 2004-03-09 - By Shane C Branch
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Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Tuesday, Mar 9th 2004 at 15:48 -0500, quoth shane c branch:
>
> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>
> =>> On Tuesday, Mar 9th 2004 at 14:25 -0500, quoth shane c branch:
> =>>
> =>> =>I have server running RH9 with two nic's, eth0 and eth1.
> =>> =>
> =>> =>I recently acquired a gigabit nic to replace eth1. How do I go about
> =>> =>swapping the cards so that the gigabit card will be eth1 rather than
eth2?
> =>> =>
> =>> Something like this in your modules.conf file.
> =>>
> =>>
> =>> alias eth0 3c59x
> =>> alias eth1 3c59x
> =>> options eth0 -o 3c59x-0 io=0x240 irq=5
> =>> options eth1 -o 3c59x-1 io=0x300 irq=7
> =>>
> =>
> =>Can you be a little more specific? I found /etc/module.conf:
> =>
> =>alias eth0 pcnet32
> =>alias eth1 e100
> =>alias scsi_hostadapter ips
> =>alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> =>
> =>that's the text of the current file. I still don't quite get what I need
> =>to do.
>
> I don't know what your io addresses or irq's are. Look them up in dmesg
> after a fresh boot. Eventually you will end up with something like this:
>
> alias eth0 pcnet32
> alias eth1 e100
> options eth0 -o pcnet io=ioadder1 irq=irq1
> options eth1 -o e100 io=ioadder2 irq=irq2
> alias scsi_hostadapter ips
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>
All I see there is IRQ to pin mappings. I don't see anything relating to
the nic in dmesg. I had to do a reboot earlier today due to mounting the
server in a rack.
I just don't know what I should looking for.
What happens if I just shutdown, swap the card, and bring it up again?
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regards,
shane
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