[ale] Installing two NIC cards problems

[Eric Z. Ayers]

This is exactly the kind of problem we had trying to use multiple
netgear cards in one machine.  We never got it to work and switched
the 2nd and 3rd card to true digital tulip based cards (the chip on
the card says digital 241XX)


Brubakken, Eric writes:
 > 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
 > FAX 678.579.5769
 >  
 >  <mailto:eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com>
 > eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com
 >  
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