Two NICs in one Linux box.

[rparfitt]

I seem to be having an inordinate amount of trouble getting Linux (Mandrake 8) to recognise two NE2000 cards.

I can configure both cards independently with no problem. Both set up OK and I can ping the network. But when I configure both cards together, the first one (eth0) uses both IO ports and both IRQs X-) and the other card (eth1) has had both of those entries removed (when viewed from linuxconf). Both cards use the ne kernel module. Why is it being so stupid????????? >:-<

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

It might be easier to directly edit the /etc/modules.conf file which stores this info. For example :

alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x220,0x240

Presumably they are not dual-port cards ? You can also do some diagnostics :

cat /proc/pci

mii-tool -v

Hope this helps

 

[rparfitt]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately even editing the modules.conf file as you suggest still results in eth0 stealing both ip addresses, both IO ports and both IRQs! Whenever I ping an IP address it will work for either if eth0 is connected and fail for both if it is not. s-)

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Those NE2000 cards do seem to be somewhat problematic. There is another driver (ne2k-pci) that you could try instead. Redhat provide both ne.o and ne2k-pci.o in their default installation - not sure about mandrake. See

http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html

.

Regards