On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Pat Mc wrote:
> Having some trouble setting up multiple nics on my 486. I'm using ne
> clones with Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.0.36. The cards work fine
> individually, but with both configured I can only get one to work at a
> time. I have tried netconf but that is not doing the trick.
>
> At this point I have done the configuration by hand. Both cards are
> recognized at boot and ifconfig shows both up and running. But only one
> works..ie ping etc....
You probably do not have routing set up for any cards but
the first. No route, no pings. With one card, it will
assume the proper routes. With two cards, only one will
route unless you set it up specifically.
I do not know about the new Kernels, but in the 2.0.36
and prior kernels, if you had more than one NIC of the
same type, you could not use modules. Modules would work
if they needed different drivers. Otherwise, with
identical cards you needed to compile the driver directly
into the kernel. I have no idea about the 2.2.x kernels,
but you should check this out.
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