Curt,
First, I know that I shouldn't be sending this without validating my
facts, but here goes.
I know this may sound silly, but I was fighting with a similar issue.
At a friends house, I had two of the same network cards (HP network
cards). I used the HP software on a DOS machine to configure both the
network cards with irq11 and irq10 and validated the cards were working
with the HP diags. I then configured one (with I/O 300 for internal
net and the second (I/O 340) for external net but needed to set STN to
Auto Detect the IRQ as configured settings of IRQ 10 and 11 didn't
work.. And (thought) that the bottom one in my case was irq10 and the
top one was irq11. In fact configured them independently so that I
would remember which was which. But then I got this strange bus error.
Went back to configure the cards together in the computer under DOS and
found that they each had the same DMA which caused the original problem
bus error. So through the HP software reconfigured with different DMA,
but kept the same IRQ and I/O (at least I think they stayed the same).
Rebooted STN and came up fine as eth0 and eth1
Connected all up and couldn't get an IP from my cable provider.
For the heck of it switched the cables so that what was I thought was
the internal card was now the external card. And it worked?
Maybe that's what happened to you. You just mixed up which card was
which. Stranger things have happened.
Good Luck,
Arnie
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