[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/18/10 01:00, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> I second the recomendation to try with an other card as the 3C905B.
> This hardware is quite old. Given the high "innovation rate" of the
> Linux kernel it may be very well that the driver for this particular
> card suffers from bitrott.

Turns out, after rummaging to the very bottom of my box of PCI and AGP
cards, I had exactly ONE dual EEPro/100 left.  (I have SCSI ccontrollers
and VGA adapters out the wazoo, several spare sound cards, and even a
Canopus Pure3D card, but this is my last spare NIC.)  So, I just swapped
out the 3C905B for the dual EEPro/100.

Curiously, the card came up as eth1/eth2 instead of eth0/eth1.  There is
no eth0.  Also curiously, snmpd reports lo as interface 1, eth2 as
interface 2, and eth1 as interface 3.  Go figure.

Time to retest tape backup...


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