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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Really annoying ethernetcard problem

I have two ethernet cards. The first is a onboard one " VIA Technologies Inc|VT3119 Gigabit Ethernet Controller" and the other is a "VIA Technologies|VT6105 [Rhine III 10/100]". They both work perfectly, but I prefer the non-onboard one since i works with *BSD.
But lately I have had this strange problem. If you see my dmesg output, it says this now:

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eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1a000, 00:11:95:d8:3b:a6, IRQ 20.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
eth1: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
eth1: Ethernet Address: 00:50:8D:62:92:E4
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But if I reboot, it looks like this:

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eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
eth0: Ethernet Address: 00:50:8D:62:92:E4
eth1: VIA Rhine III at 0x1a000, 00:11:95:d8:3b:a6, IRQ 20.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
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Which meen I have to manually edit "/etc/rc.conf" before I can get any internet.

How do I solved this problem?

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Really annoying ethernetcard problem

Have a look at the udev wiki page - everything you need is there.

Sander

Member

Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 138

Re: Really annoying ethernetcard problem

I had the exact same problem (with 2 onboard nics). You need to tell udev to assign both cards their own unique names based on their mac address. As mentioned before, you can find out how by taking a look at the udev wiki article.

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whargoul

Member

From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: Really annoying ethernetcard problem

Have a look at the udev wiki page - everything you need is there.

Thanks, I didn't knew that it was such a common problem.

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Sander

Member

Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 138

Re: Really annoying ethernetcard problem

Well, everyone with 2 or more pieces of similar hardware must have come across it. Let's hope it doesn't happen to harddisks, though

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