[rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available

[Mark Seamans]

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:53:41PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > 
> > How hard is 'insmod modulename' and adding the appropriate entry to 
> > modules.conf?   Or creating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 
> > by duplicating ifcfg-eth0 and changing the entries?  8-)
> 
> Oh, THAT part is fine. Just don't leave a badly named backup copy of ifcfg-eth* lying about. The network scripts have an amusing tendency to try to load config data from ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth0~, ifcfg-eth0.backup, and ifcfg-eth0.dammitwhatsgoingonhere silently overwriting the interface's config as they go. NEVER add suffixes to these files; always add prefixes. 


excuse me, umm, but solaris does that too.
I spent hours trying to find out why networking wouldn't work right
only to find out that MY /etc/rc2.d/S69inet.old was overwriting
/etc/rc2.d/S69inet.


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