Hi, I hope this is the appropriate mailing list for this question. If not, could someone please point out which might be the best suited list to ask such questions? I have already searched the archive and I didn't find any other question with similar issu. I recompiled the 2.4.18-14 kernel (this is my first time). I want to use this kernel on a i386 box with 2 NIC cards (I use this box primarily as router). This router is currently running RH8 (also 2.4.18-14) and it works well. The new kernel loads fine except some issues with the ethernet cards. The ethernet cards I have are PCI Netgear FA311 (eth0) and ISA 3Com 3c509 (eth1). The drivers are compiled as loadable modules in the new kernel. The /etc/modules.conf has two lines for loading these 'alias eth0 natsemi' and 'alias eth1 3c509'. There are no other lines related to eth0/1 in this file and it works fine with RH8. eth1 is configured with static IP address and eth0 is configured using DHCP. With the new kernel the eth0 prints "Determining information for eth0" or something similar. In my RH8 kernel it would print [OK] but for the new kernel it prints [Failed]. eth1 comes up fine. If I change the protocol to static and assign an IP address (say, 192.168.1.2) then it comes up okay (but I still cannot use both interfaces -- there have been misc problems). I think the drivers are okay because if I bringup (using ifup) only one card (doesn't matter which one) I'm able to do ping to my other computer (this was only with tested using static addr because my other computer doesn't have a dhcpd). Is there something special I should do for two cards to work in the kernel? I read in the Ether-howto that when compiling in the kernel we might need ether= option. For modules, we simply use modules.conf. I don't have the "options natsemi io=0xXXX" in my modules.conf though. Do I need that? It works fine without it in RH8. I see that for ISA the IO Base is same in RH8 and new kernel. For natsemi (eth0) I see IO Base different (I figured this is probed for PCI and since I compiled out some USB, sound, etc I might be getting a different address). Any help is appreciated. thanks in advance, Tuns __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
