[ale] Installing two NIC cards problems

[Wandered Inn]

Have you attempted to manually load the driver for the second card after
booting?

I recall having a similar problem with Netgear cards.  What I ended up
doing was to replace one of them with a different make card.  Could it
be a problem with two of the same type of card in the machine?

Are you using LILO?  Have you tried adding 'append="ether=0,0,eth1"' to
your lilo.conf or a similar approach to the lilo prompt?

"Brubakken, Eric" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to get two NIC cards installed in my RH6.1 machine at home.  But
> as usual, my machine can only see one NIC card.
> 
> I am using the tulip driver loaded as a module.
> 
> I have assigned alias in the conf.modules file
>     alias eth0 tulip
>     alias eth1 tulip
>     options eth0 -o tulip-0
>     options eth1 -o tulip-1
> 
> I have NOT assigned the IRQ in the conf.modules.  The Ethernet-HOWTO makes
> reference that with PCI you should not need to.
> 
> I have also assign aliases using linuxconf - neither seem to have any
> effect.
> 
> This is an old AMD Pentium 133MHz using PCI slots for the NIC cards.
> 
> I am using the Netgear 10/100 NIC cards.  When I swap the card location the
> machine will see whatever card is in the master ( I hope ) slot.  But it
> never does anything with the other card.  Under one of the KDE tools ( sorry
> I'm brain dead and I don't remember which one ), I did find out that the one
> card that is recognized is using IRQ 11 and the machine can determine what
> the NIC card manufacture name is.  The other is using IRQ 10, but the
> machine is unable to determine any thing else about it.  During the boot
> process eth0 is initialized fine [OK} and eth1 [FAILED] - initialization
> deferred.  I have been trying all different combs in the bios concerning the
> PCI setup, but nothing seems to work.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance....
> 
> Eric T. Brubakken
> 
> Southern Energy Marketing
> 1155 Perimeter Center West
> Suite 130
> Atlanta, GA. 30338-5416
> 
> WP 678.579.5063
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> 
>  <mailto:eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com>
> eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com
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