Deim Agoston wrote:
> I've got an urgent problem. I've got two PCI NICs in the same machine and
> they didn't want to work. They're Genius PCI cards and work with the
> rtl8139 driver. They got the IRQs and free interrupts but ifconfig only
> sees the lo interface. The modules.conf has the lines alias eth0 rtl8139
> and alias eth1 rtl8139 but it doesn't work.
Check /var/log/messages for clues from the rtl8139 driver as it loads.
Check that your BIOS is set to boot a Non-PnP OS.
Try shuffling the cards around. Make sure they're both in Bus Master
capable slots.
I've got an rtl8139 card working in the box I'm on here, along side an
eepro100 on the motherboard. It's using a 2.4.0-test11 kernel with the
8139too.o module.
Paul.
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