NIC woes (was: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers)

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:

> The second box was an ASUS P2B-LS motherboard with an Intel PII-MMX
> 400 MHz CPU. The Hurd installed and even booted but TCP/IP refused to
> work. The problem was a defective built-in ethernet port on the P2B-LS
> board. While Linux is okay using a secondary nic and ignoring the
> broken built-in nic, the Hurd can't do it. It insisted on confusing
> eth0 and eth1, generating endless error messages on the console, and
> rendering both useless.

I saw that in the IRC backlog, but didn't have a chance to reply...

The secondary NIC should work just fine, if you disable the onboard one
in the BIOS setup. I actually tested such a setup quite recently.

Regarding the eth0/eth1 issue: On my system (Intel i815 chipset with
onbard Intel NIC), I *always* get eth0 and eth1. (That's totally
unrelated to a secondary NIC being present; it's some bug with the
driver itself.) But it works nevertheless, if I use eth0 and ignore
eth1. (Touching eth1 makes bad things happen...)

-antrik-