Problem using two ne2k-pci cards at once

Hi all,

I hope someone might be able to help me - I have two NE2K-clone network
cards, both of which work on their own, but when put in the machine
together, the second (eth1) fails to work, and gives an error:
ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped

Any ideas?

Cheers,
James Phillpotts

the relevent lines in modules.conf read:

alias eth0 ne2k-pci
alias eth1 ne2k-pci
options ne2k-pci irq=12,5

in /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Class 0200 PCI device 1106:0926 (rev 0)
IRQ 5
I/O at 0x6c00 [0x6c1f]
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Class 0200 PCI device 10ec:8029 (rev 0)
IRQ 12
I/O at 0x7000 [0x701f]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:48:34 +0100, James Phillpotts
<mr@<> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope someone might be able to help me - I have two NE2K-clone network
> cards, both of which work on their own, but when put in the machine
> together, the second (eth1) fails to work, and gives an error:
> ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped
>
> Any ideas?
>
Have you tried ifconfig? What is in /etc/network/interfaces?



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Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:48:34 +0100, James Phillpotts
> <mr@<> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I hope someone might be able to help me - I have two NE2K-clone network
>>cards, both of which work on their own, but when put in the machine
>>together, the second (eth1) fails to work, and gives an error:
>>ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>
> Have you tried ifconfig? What is in /etc/network/interfaces?
>
>
>
Are they setup using their IRQ's? In /etc/modules.conf the cards need
to be setup like so (IIRC):
alias ne2k irq=10
alias ne2k irq=11
I had this setup before, when I was using by linux box as a router.
Hope this steers you in the right direction.

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