Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:57:40 +0200 | From | Chris Black <> | Subject | Re: nonexistant device, eth2 loaded? and another net related lock-up with 2.0.34 |
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Brian Craft wrote: [stuff about crashes I have no clue about deleted] idunno what could be causing this, but I do have something to say on the nonexistant eth2...
> Anyone else having problems like this? [previous boot messages deleted] > Jul 30 13:40:10 bcboy-linux kernel: eth1: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 3. > Jul 30 13:40:10 bcboy-linux kernel: loading device 'eth2'... > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > there is no eth2 device! What's up with this? I don't see this > in the other 2.0.34 machines I have running. There's no eth2 > defined in conf.modules or on the boot line. I have seen stuff like "loading device ethn" (where n = number of nics, ie, it will be the first eth device that isn't actually in your machine) on a machine with multiple ethernet cards. I don't know if it is probing for another card, but I would think that after it doesn't find it, there isn't an issue. Check cat /proc/net/dev, there isn't an entry for the 'ghost' eth device. I don't know exactly how the ethernet device probing for multiple cards works though. Are you loading these eth drivers via entries in conf.modules and using modules or by stuff compiled into the kernel and passing arguments thru lilo? I have done it both ways but don't have access to the boot logs for doing it the non-module way. I also don't have actual messages for the current configuration using modules because the command dmesg just shows lots of other messages about SYN stuff (I seem to have written some network software somewhat incorrectly, bad me. It isn't the hardware anyways). A suggestion/question: why aren't kernel messages dealing with modules loaded at boot time thru conf.modules or whatever recorded in the syslog dmesg file? They don't seem to be for me anyways (2.0.35 + Jumbo-6).
Chris
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