A few weeks ago I wrote that I was having problems setting up two
ethernet cards on an older 486 machine. They kept getting the same IRQ
assigned and wouldn't function. I tried several otions in
etc/conf.modules, none of which worked:
alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 3c509
options 3c509 irq=10,5
This didn't work;
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 irq=10
alias eth1 3c509
options 3c509 irq=10
also didn't work.
Jason Hirsch wrote and suggest I try the first option, but using io
addresses. That didn't work. A suggested change to lilo.conf also
failed to offer relief.
Tinkering with this, I tried the following:
alias eth0 3c509
options eth0 irq=10
alias eth1 3c509
options eth1 irq=5
This works. Each ethernet card is assigned the correct IRQ and the
firewall works fine now.
One interesting aspect I've noticed is that when I do a soft reboot
(shutdown -r now) that eth0 always fails during startup. I have to do
a 'shutdown -h now' and hit the reset button and then both cards come
up perfectly.
Any thoughts as to why this happens?
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