Re: Switching between two network cards

Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do: ifdown eth0 rmmod fealnx modprobe sk98lin ifup eth0 I'm no expert in networking. Mig

Re: Switching between two network cards

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: ... I've got two network cards: one integrated on my motherboard (uses the sk98lin driver) and a PCI card (fealnx driver). Both drivers are compiled as modules and upon startup I'm loading only fealnx via /etc

Re: Switching between two network cards

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > ... > I've got two network cards: one integrated on my motherboard > (uses the sk98lin driver) and a PCI card (fealnx driver). Both drivers are > compiled as modules and upon startup I'm loading only fealnx via > /etc/modules (I'm n

Re: Switching between two network cards

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the > sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do: > > ifdown eth0 > rmmod fealnx > modprobe sk98lin > ifup eth0 I'm no expert in networking. Might be

Re: Switching between two network cards

Steven Jones wrote: I dont quite understand why you need to switch, you could just run everything off eth1, but anyway, I don't need to switch. It's just that it's not doing what I think it should do and I want to know why. I would suggest looking in your bios and either disabling the onboard NIC

RE: Switching between two network cards

I dont quite understand why you need to switch, you could just run everything off eth1, but anyway, I would suggest looking in your bios and either disabling the onboard NIC, or changing the PCI probe order eg if its says first-last change it to last-first or what ever syntax your bios uses. H