newbie question: ethernet interfaces

I have two 3com ethernet cards (3c905c and 3c905b) in a debian box. I have
loaded the 3c59x module using modconf. I have entered "alias eth0 3c59x"
in /etc/modules (without the quotes) but I still dont have any ethernet
interfaces available... what have I done wrong?

Craig
PW Group
System Administrator Assistant
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:10:29 -0600, Craig Stein wrote:

> I have two 3com ethernet cards (3c905c and 3c905b) in a debian box. I have
> loaded the 3c59x module using modconf. I have entered "alias eth0 3c59x"
> in /etc/modules (without the quotes) but I still dont have any ethernet
> interfaces available... what have I done wrong?


Sounds like its just not bringing up eth0. I don't know how debian works
in this situation but you could try a couple of things. Firstly a
'ifconfig eth0 up' to determine if it will actually use the driver, and
doing a manual 'modprobe 3c59x' and looking at the output (in dmesg too).

Regrards
Michael Collard

You said that you had two NICs. So If you want to detect all , you have to
write "alias eth1 3c59x" too.
Next, you have to load the modules. Use the command "modprove".
And then, Input "/etc/init.d/network restart" or "ifconfig eth0 up, ifconfig
eth1 up".



"Craig Stein" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have two 3com ethernet cards (3c905c and 3c905b) in a debian box. I
have
> loaded the 3c59x module using modconf. I have entered "alias eth0 3c59x"
> in /etc/modules (without the quotes) but I still dont have any ethernet
> interfaces available... what have I done wrong?
>
> Craig
> PW Group
> System Administrator Assistant
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
>

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:10:29 -0600, Craig Stein
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have two 3com ethernet cards (3c905c and 3c905b) in a debian box. I have
> loaded the 3c59x module using modconf. I have entered "alias eth0 3c59x"
> in /etc/modules (without the quotes) but I still dont have any ethernet
> interfaces available... what have I done wrong?
>
/etc/modules should only contain names of modules. Alias commands go in
/etc/modprobe.d/aliases if you use a 2.6 kernel, or /etc/modutils/aliases
for older systems. The modconf program should write those files for you.
Do the commands "dmesg" and "lspci" show your ethernet cards?


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spent about three minutes inside." --AP news story

thanks guys for all the help. I finally got the thing working although I am
still uncertain as to what I did... one of the probs of running unstable
distributions perhaps.


"Bill Marcum" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ih51q1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:10:29 -0600, Craig Stein
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > I have two 3com ethernet cards (3c905c and 3c905b) in a debian box. I
have
> > loaded the 3c59x module using modconf. I have entered "alias eth0
3c59x"
> > in /etc/modules (without the quotes) but I still dont have any ethernet
> > interfaces available... what have I done wrong?
> >
> /etc/modules should only contain names of modules. Alias commands go in
> /etc/modprobe.d/aliases if you use a 2.6 kernel, or /etc/modutils/aliases
> for older systems. The modconf program should write those files for you.
> Do the commands "dmesg" and "lspci" show your ethernet cards?
>
>
> --
> "Donna Hand of Ashburn, Va., waited five hours to see the casket and
> spent about three minutes inside." --AP news story