While it sounds like something is being missed, I have seen many messages about problems with eepro100 drivers in stock kernels. A friend has had success with 2 nics and the driver from intel.com.
Itzik Harel wrote: > > Hello > we successfully boot our system with LinuxBios. Unfortunately only two > out of three of our NICs get recognized, we get "e100 - Failed to > find PCI device" for the third NIC. Even more unfortunate the two > remaining NICs appear to be unstable when sending heavy traffic > through them. > > When booting the same configuration with regular Bios the three NICs > get up and are stable. > This suggests that we miss something in the setup of our LinuxBios. > What could it be? > > Our system board is a Mitac 3675 with 440BX chipset on a Celeron. Our > NICs are Intel eepro, the drivers are loaded as modules at boot time. > > Regards, > > Itzik Harel > Hardware Engineer > Allot Communications >
