I did exactly that and was still only able to get one card reconized.
If this causes too much more trouble I will try to scrape up another
card. Like you say, it would make things easier.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Zeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Multiple nics
> If I remember correctly you may have to compile the driver into
> the kernel to get two of the same type of cards to work. I don't
> know if this got fixed in recent kernels or not. The easy fix
> is to use a different network card. Also, you might make sure
> you have these in your /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules?):
>
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11
>
> Then try "modprobe eth0" and "modprobe eth1". If your cards are
> found, reboot and then configure the interfaces from the gui.
>
> At 02:20 PM 10/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >I have installed Storm 2000 on a machine and intend to use it as a
> >firewall. I'm sure I have too much installed as I just went for
the
> >"normal' installation.
> >
> >There are 2 Novell/Eagle NE2000 Plus ISA cards in the machine with
the
> >IOs @ 0x300 and 0x340, the IRQs @ 10 and 11. Neither one was found
by
> >the system, in fact, when I tried to modprobe I got a message
stating
> >that eth0 was an unknown interface; No such device.
> >
> >I did some reading and found out I should create an alias for eth0
and
> >eth1 in the /etc/modules.conf file. Of course Debian creates
that
> >file from the aliases file in /etc/modutils and changes
should
> >be made there. So I added
> ># alias eth0 ne
> >with a comment (#) at the start of the line, then ran
update-modules.
> >I know, that seems strange but the note in the aliases file said
to
> >UNcomment the lines you don't want to load. I even rebooted to make
> >sure the changes took effect.
> >
> >Lo and behold, I was able to get eth0 up but it is NOT found on
boot
> >up. I then followed the same procedure for eth1, but it doesn't
work.
> >After trying modprobe (no message, just go to next line) I still
get
> >the 'unknown interface; No such device' message trying to run ifup.
> >Neither card is found on boot up and I have no problems getting
eth0
> >up manually or through SAS.
> >
> >I have tried adding
> >options ne io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11
> >to the aliases file but that doesn't seem to make any difference...
> >maybe it should go somewhere else?
> >
> >I'm sure this is a simple thing and I am just trying to make it
> >extremely difficult. I tried a single floppy firewall called
Freesco
> >and it found both cards with no problems, but it runs with an older
> >2.0.x kernel. Just for fun I tried another floppy firewall and it
> >won't find the cards at all.
> >
> >Any ideas? I can bring it in tonight if someone wants to 'play
> >around' with it and show me how to fix it...
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
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