Re: Ethernet card on motherboard fried in thunderstorm; installation advice needed

From: Clive Dove (chdove_at_rogers.com)
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:15:01 GMT

Gary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Valinux system that's about 3 years old, running Redhat 6.2
> and an Intel ethernet adaptor on the motherboard. It's toast. I
> literally was at my pc when a flash of light went off in my room,
> right next to me, an electromagnetic charge that they tell me is a
> precursor to the lightning that hit right outside afterwards.
>
> I have read through the Ethernet-HOWTO, Net-HOWTO etc. and I am
> confused about what to do. I have never rebuilt a kernel or done
> anything with modules, so I am somewhat lost and in need of advice.
>
> In a panic, I ran out and bought a $5 Linksys ethernet card for a PCI
> slot on the machine. The first slot now has a modem, and I recall the
> system can't have both a modem and another NIC card. So I am thinking
> I need to swap that out but the Linksys isn't listed (since the
> machine is old) when I do make menuconfig and see the cards that are
> supported.
>
> How easy/hard is it to swap out a modem for a nic? How is it with a
> new card vs. one that is listed? What type of re-configuration do I
> need to do?
>
> Coming at this from a different angle, I have two drives in the
> machine and had been thinking of putting Redhat 9 on it, on the second
> drive, and doing a dual boot system for awhile. Would it be easier to
> slap in a Linksys and then install Redhat 9 and would Redhat 9
> automatically configure the second NIC card? Would it be able to tell
> the first card is dead?
>
> Any advice much appreciated. For years, I neurotically turned off my
> machine at any sign of a thunderstorm. I relaxed because nothing would
> happen and left my machine on 24/7. Go figure. I am uptight again.
> Thankfully, the machine otherwise appears to be ok.

Assuming that the card is a linksys LNE100TX, the module is tulip.

So try this:
Amend the file /etc/modules.conf to add this line:
alias etho tulip
Comment out any other line that starts "alias eth0"

I see no reason, other than a possible irq conflict, why you cannot have
an ethernet card and a modem, so long as both are not trying to use the
internet.

You could have one using the internet and another using the local net
because the routing table would then be unambiguous.

I am running a Pentium 120 as my fax machine using a USRobotics modem
and the machine also talks to the router using a linksys lne100tx. (It
is using OS/2 but the principle is independent of the operating system.

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