Roderick Scott Corporation wrote: > > I'm trying to run Dachstein with 3 Intel Ether Express 100 Pro NICs
What is the exact model number and name of those cards? I use Intel EtherExpress Pro100+ 82557's these days and they load fine for me using the latest eepro100.o. Where did you get your .o modules that you are trying to install to run the nic? > however the system will not boot properly. I can run one just fine by > loading the two necessary modules. What modules? Give us the dmesg output so we can see exactly what happened when you boot it with one nic and 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. Shouldn't be a factor, except that it takes an IRQ. > 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. Could you explain what you tried in a bit more detail plz? Regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
