I am trying to configure a Mandrake 10.0 (2.6 kernel) Linux box to act
as a firewall and Internet connection machine.
I have two identical NIC cards, SMC1244TX 10/100. I want one to
connect to the cable modem using dhcp and the other to my local lan,
using static IP address.
Both cards are detected by the BIOS and seen by the mandrake hardware
wizard, but the second one (eth1) cannot be initialized. dmesg reports
that the tulip driver gives an error when it comes to eth1. Something
like common memory not big enough.
I am looking for a nice simple set of cmds (or better a mandrake
wizard GUI method) that will get these two cards running at Linux boot
time.
Note that there have been other cases where someone was trying to run
two identical NIC cards, and the question was never answered. One in
Google answers, APR 2003.

Try to put them in two seperate  slots (not shared slots) Like 1 & 3 I beleive.

Try installing them completly one at a time.


X

I have moved the cards from slot to slot. One card reports that it is
IRQ5 the other IRQ10. I have tried the following combos:
IRQ10 in PCI slot "2" (Leaving the PCI slot next to the AGP card
empty.) and IRQ5 in PCI slot "4" (the PCI slot next to the ISA slots.)
IRQ10 in PCI slot "2", IRQ5 in PCI slot "3".
IRQ5 in PCI slot "2" and IRQ10 in PCI slot "4".
The failure symptoms vary somewhat, but I never get two cards to work
at the same time.
I have not tried the one at a time approach. I probably should.

Try this:
Go into your Bios and change the Plug and Plug OS setting to NO - it
should be under advanced settings. I have had similiar problems with
3COM cards.

Neal

OK Will try that.
Can you explain what this will accomplish? I don't really think the
problem is in the BIOS since the BIOS detects OK, and the Mandrake h/w
wizard sees both cards. The problem seems more to be in the driver and
loading the module and initializing the 2nd card. How will changing
the BIOS to NO PnP help there?
Greg M.

It has something to do with the way the the Bios initializes the
cards. Yes Linux sees the card it just can't configure them correctly.