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Title: How to customize a NIC driver???
Post by: John Lewis on October 22, 2003, 06:15:58 PM

A friend is trying to upgrade his 5.1.2 box from dial-up to 2 nic's.  He added the 2nd nic (a netgear fa311), and the configuration manager showed the card as "unknown device".

We downloaded the fa311-0.1-3.i386.rpm from charlie brady's mirror and installed it.

I then did the following

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDevice2 fa311
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

Then restarted the server.

/etc/modules.conf did have an eth1 fa311 entry

Eth1 did not come up, but an "ifup eth1" did fail with "determining ip information", which it had not done before... (we are also now making sure we're getting dhcp info from the new DSL modem/line, but that's another story)

Is this the right  way to manually specify what driver to use for a nic?  Are there any other steps that are needed?

Thanks.

Title: Re: How to customize a NIC driver???
Post by: sdfg on October 22, 2003, 09:02:27 PM

ghj

Title: Re: How to customize a NIC driver???
Post by: Tom Keiser on October 23, 2003, 12:29:12 AM

If you upgrade to something like 5.6 or 6.0, you will be able to select your NIC right in the console as you do the initial setup. You will also be doing yourself a favor, by eliminating a bunch of vulnerabilities.

T.

Title: 5.1.2 is obsolete and no longer secure (Re: How to customize
Post by: Charlie Brady on October 23, 2003, 06:38:49 AM

John Lewis wrote:

> A friend is trying to upgrade his 5.1.2 box from dial-up to 2
> nic's.

Anyone still running 5.1.2 is taking a significant and unnecessary risk. Upgrade!

Charlie

Title: Re: 5.1.2 is obsolete and no longer secure (Re: How to custo
Post by: Krusty on October 24, 2003, 04:32:21 AM

My suggestion is to get your hands on a realtek chipset or an intel pro 100 chipset as these cards are very common and will be discovered by e-smith straight away. Also these cards seem to perform to their best capabilities working under llinux. A funny driver will cause problems in your network and only frustrate yourself. For the small fee of a new network card you will be happier later.