LinuxQuestions.org - about setting my dual netcards

Hi all,
I am looking for someone to help me figure out the problem of installing two netcards in my system. Please don't blame me first, in fact, I have searched and read the similar posts in this forum but couldn't find the solution at last.

I am working with a very old server(HP5183-2112 A-63, with ISA slots) which was successfully installed redhat 9. Initially, only one netcard(VIA VT860100A rhine-II PCI) was working in the system, everything is fine. However, now I would like to install another netcard(Realtex RTL-8029) but it fails to boot up both devices

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
Failed to bring up eth0

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
Failed to bring up eth1

In the previous posts of the similiar questions, some people suggest to turn off PNP in bios or turn off Kuduz. Unfortunately, I found the bios doesn't support switching of PNP. I also tried to turn off kuduz but still no good. Some one said they need the following information for the problem.

1) $ cat /proc/interrupts

Code:

        CPU0

0:    35500        XT-PCI      timer

1:    107            XT-PCI      keyboard

2:    0                XT-PCI      cascade

8:    1                XT-PCI      rtc

12:  30              XT-PCI      ps/2

14:  5258          XT-PCI      ide0

NMI  0

ERR: 0

2) $ cat /etc/modules.conf

Code:

  alias eth1 ne2k-pci

  options via-rhine irq=11

  options ne2k-pci irq=10

  alias eth0 via-rhine

3) $ lsmod

Code:

  Module      Size        used by      Not tainted

  ne2k-pci    7232        0

  8390          8505        0                [ne2k-pci]

  via-rhine    15856      0                

  mii              3926        0                [via-rhine]

4) $ dmesg | grep eth[01]

Code:

divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0

eth0:  VIA VT86c100a rhine at 0xfc80 01:50:00:00:01:9a  IRQ0

eth0: MII PHY found at address 9, status 0x782d advertising 0xe1 link 41e1



divert: allocating divert_blk for  eth1

eth1: realtex RTL_8029 found at 0xfc60, IRQ0 00:41:01:64:dd:68

5) $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/ifcfg_eth0

Code:

  DEVICE = eth0

  ONBOOT = yes

  BOOTPROTO = none

  IPADDR = 192.168.10.11

  NETMASK = 255.255.255.0

  GATEWAY = 192.168.10.1

  TYPE = Ethernet

  USECTL = no

  PEERDNS = n0

  NETWORK = 192.168.10.0

  BROADCAST = 192.168.10.127

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/ifcfg_eth0

Code:

  DEVICE = eth1

  ONBOOT = yes

  BOOTPROTO = static

  IPADDR = 192.168.10.12

  NETMASK = 255.255.255.0

  GATEWAY = 192.168.10.1