> Each card will work fine in either PCI slot, but when _both_ cards are in
> the machine, neither will work. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with
> the kernel loadable modules, but I ran out of patience yesterday. Just as a
Im pretty sure that has to be hardware
> Hardware: HP Vectra486/66 w/ 20MB RAM etc. 2 PCI slots and one on-board 10BT
> LAN port (currently enabled in the BIOS-- anyone know offhand which driver
> would address this port? Not important)
Probably the lance, or maybe one of the hp drivers. It varies by machin.
> 1. Found an error (probably from using linuxconf...) in /etc/conf.modules
> and removed duplicate lines -- essentially the file repeated itself. Here's
> fixed conf.modules
> alias eth0 eepro100
> alias eth1 eepro100
That is fine - its harmless. It wont request it as it is already loaded
> 8. Tried adding irq's to above, still no success. Double-checked irq
> availability with a cat /proc/interrupts. Correct
The PCI devices are autoconfiguring, unlike ISA.
> 10. Backed up then removed /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and
> rebooted to let the machine bring up only eth0, but with both cards present
> in the machine. No joy.
> 11. Pulled the second eepro100 card out and put in an epic100, edited
> conf.modules. Booted successfully immediately. Sigh.
That sounds so much like hardware
The fact the same setup works with 2 different cards says that the network
configuration and network are probably fine.
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