[leaf-user] Bering can't handle Dell GX150 integrated Ethernet?

[Tibbs, R. <rw...@RA...>]

Hello List:
I have tried implementing a bering fw (floppy boot) on Dell Optiplex
GX150 with two NICS.
One is an "integrated" nic on the motherboard (3c905b), and the other is
a PCI card 3c905c.
Both are PCI devices, and RedHat 9 finds them both and configures them.
Under RH9 (booting from the hard drive) I can ping from both interfaces
to devices on either subnet.
With Bering, using the 3c59x.o module found via the Bering installation
guide, neither interface is brought up.
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Neither an ip addr sho nor ip link sho command shows these interfaces
(get nothing but lo and dummy0).

I even tried swapping in the RH9 3c59x.o to replace the one from
sourceforge. Still no luck.
So I am wondering if the PCI scan utility (whatever it is in Bering ---
under Dachstein I load a pciscan module) is not happy with such an
integrated NIC.

Immediately after boot, a dmesg command shows nothing that looks like an
error. The "probing PCI hardware" line appears, and no other complaints
seem to arise.

In the interfaces file in /etc/network, both eth0 and eth1 are mentioned
in an auto command, and are given static Ips.=20
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static =20
	address 192.168.10.254
	masklen 24
	broadcast 192.168.10.255
	gateway 137.45.192.186
#=20
# Option 1.3: PPP/PPPOE (modem connected to eth0)=20
#auto ppp0=20
#iface ppp0 inet ppp
#	pre-up ip link set eth0 up
#	provider dsl-provider eth0
#=20
# Option 1.4: PPP modem
#auto ppp0
#iface ppp0 inet ppp
#	provider provider
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# Step 2: configure  internal interface
# Default: eth1 / fixed IP =3D 192.168.1.254
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
	address 137.45.192.185
	masklen 24
	broadcast 137.45.192.255

# ....

In /etc/modules there is a single uncommented line
3c59x
Above the usual ip_conntrack and ip_nat stuff.


What could be wrong?=20
TIA
Rick.