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SubjectCorrect ether= parameters for 8139too (RealTek 8139) ?
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Hi,
My apologies for the major spam here but this problem is really causing me havoc :)

Basically my machine has 2xIntel eepro onboard NICs and 1 RealTek 8139 PCI NIC.
My problem is that I am unable to force the RealTek Card register as a specific device namely eth2 - it always decides to register itself as eth0.


Let's take my previous configuration.
Kernel Version : 2.4.17
Let's assume that modules e100 have not been compiled (source Intel who so not support these drivers to be built into the kernel)

/etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 e100
alias eth2 8139too

If for whatever reason eth0/1 do not come up eg unresolved symbol/module not installed… The RealTek (8139too) registers itself as eth0 regardless of what options I give eth2…. So I decided to compile 8139too into the kernel in order to parse ether= parameters to it via LILO.

Current Configuration
Kernel Version : 2.4.17 (with 8139too built in)

/etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 e100
##alias eth2 8139too (not needed obviously)

No matter what ether= parameters I parse to the kernel at boot time the RealTek card is registered as eth0 :(
So I ended up trying to debug 8139too and recomped it.

Can anyone please indicate what the correct ether= parameters I should be parsing to the kernel in order to register the card to eth2 or even a hack for 8139too.c ?

Here's as much data as I can give you….
Many thanks in advance,
Shaf

>From 8139too.c
Much code comes from Donald Becker's rtl8139.c driver,
versions 1.13 and older. This driver was originally based
on rtl8139.c version 1.07. Header of rtl8139.c version 1.13:

DPRINTK("about to register device named %s (%p)...\n", dev->name, dev);
i = register_netdev (dev);

/proc/bus/pci/devices
0048 10ec8139 b 0000c001 dffcdf00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 dffb0000 00000100 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000 8139too

ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:74:8D:BC
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xaf00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

/proc/pci

Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffcdf00 [0xdffcdfff].

/proc/ioports
c000-c0ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
c000-c0ff : 8139too

/proc/iomem
dffcdf00-dffcdfff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
dffcdf00-dffcdfff : 8139too

dmesg
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.22
rtl8139_init_board: PIO region size == 0x100
rtl8139_init_board: MMIO region size == 0x100
rtl8139_init_board: chipset id (116) == index 5, 'RTL-8139C'
rtl8139_init_board: PCI PM wakeup
rtl8139_init_one: about to register device named eth%d (f7e7f800)...
Shaf :<6>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf880af00, c02a93fa:00:c02a5426:50:c02a5426:bf, IRQ -1070967770
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'




eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'




eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'








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