Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a KnoppMyth, a Knoppix or a general Linux question, but here goes. When setting up a new machine with Knoppmyth I had a problem getting a second network card working, the steps I took to fix it are below. I want to know is that the "correct" solution, and where is the boot script which seems to run before the network hardware is loaded, since I couldn't find them in the /etc directory, at least not for runlevel 5.

The first card on the machine had problems, I think they are linked to hardware assisted firewall options on the NVidia based motherboard of which the first NIC is a component.

Anyway, I set put in the second card and added eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces, and it was autodetected at the end of the boot sequence, after networking was already configured. This meant I had to run ifup -a as root after boot up was complete to configure eth1. I have since copied S40networking from /etc/rcS.d to rc5.d, and this got the networks to autoconfig again after eth1 was detected.

Hi,
Are you doing all this because the first nic doesn't work or is it for another purpose? With the information you supplied there isn't anything specific that can be answered as I can see, (then again the eyes aren't what they use to be).

I would suggest double checking the cmos settings if it is an on board nic as something may be turn on or off and shouldn't be. The cmos settings bit me, once.

For more help please give the folks here something to work with like hardware details.
Mike

Hi Mike,

Sorry, I tend to meander a bit sometimes. I just wanted to know why Linux was trying to configure the network before it found my second network card. I was trying to track down the script in rc5.d which did this but could not find it. As I said, I have networking working now, so the question is just out of interest, rather than trying to solve a problem. I don't care so much about the first card, I think I know why it doesn't work and fixing it means reinstalling windows.

Hi Rattle,

Not a problem, I too wonder a bit off an on...
However, I am now a bit curious as to why you would have to load windows to fix the network card.., it is hardware and the drivers are what control it, not windows.

Since Linux was basicly born on the internet, it has always been one thing that usually works very well. A sound card or something unique, well that was a different story as often drivers hadn't been developed. Over the years some really creative minds have taken the linux family to some extreme levels.

Anyway, glad to hear you are up and running. Best wishes.
Mike

The network card is part of an NVidia motherboard, and includes some sort of hardware assisted firewall which is not supported through Linux. I think it stopped working when I changed the firewall settings in Windows, and for some reason they won't change back. I can't find any relevant bios settings, and the firewall config tool in windows stopped working (I blame windows update for that).

I was using a multi boot system to try out both Windows Media Center and Myth TV. By the way, Knoppmyth beat Windows - the TV card's own software worked fine on Windows, but Media Center did not recognize it at all.