I'm trying to run Dachstein with 3 Intel Ether Express 100 Pro NICs however the system will not boot properly. I can run one just fine by loading the two necessary modules. I can even get all three to run if the system has already booted and I manually reload the network. But when I restart the box, it hangs when loading eth0 ... it gets past local (lo) and stops for over 30 minutes at which time I came back from having a coffee.
I have made sure there are plenty of free interrupts of which 10, 11 and 15 are assigned by the pci bus to the NICs and nothing else. The system is a 128mb Duron 700 on a DFI motherboard, CD & floppy. All on-board peripherals are disabled i.e. serial, USB, sound etc. The only thing I didn't do was turn off the 2nd IDE bus. If I swap to the abundant and cheap 8139 based cards, all works fine though I understand under load these cards do not hold up well. So, my next option is to use a DLink 4-port NIC even though I already have the Intel's :-( Does anyone have any ideas what could be the issue? Scott BTW, I have tried to load the driver using 3 different names for the modules. Either I didn't do it right or that was not the solution. _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
