Hi, is it vital that both cards are loaded at boottime? What happens when you insmod the second card? How does the kernel behave when compiling the cards in? Perhaps you can try to leave the ',eth0' and ',eth1' at the bootline and let the kernel figure it out itself?
Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bill Bell wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a dual NIC system using two 3c509 cards. This configuration has > been working well under sid with a 2.2.18 kernel (my current system). > I have been trying to move up to a 2.4.0 kernel and I am having > problems. > > My problem is when booting with the 2.4.0 kernel, both NIC cards have > the wrong media port enabled. The boot message is saying something > like "Coax port" instead of "10baseT port". > > This is the lilo.conf append line I use to get both cards working for > the 2.2.18 kernel. > > append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x310,eth1" > > When I remark out this append line, run lilo, and boot the 2.4.0 kernel, > eth0 gets configed correctly with the 10baseT port enabled, but eth1 > is not found. > > Some of the things I have tried- > RTFM docs under /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking > searching the debian user list archives > searching www.kernel.org documentation > other various FAQs on the web > > Possible problems as a guess- > 1) I am missing a new append "ether='parameter'" > 2) There is a better way to use the "ether=" line > 3) 2.4.0 kernel has a bug in the 3c509 driver (?) > > More info- > I have PnP turned off in both the BIOS and on both NICs. > > Thanks for any and all suggestions. > > -- Bill > C.R.E.A.M. Dark Angel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
