Howdy, trying to setup a simple home network here. I got stock at the stage of detecting network card(s).

2 cards: 3c905C-TX and DFE-530TX (and both are supported)
3c905 uses 3c59x.o and DFE-530 uses tulip.o

for some reason, my linux box can only detected and install one card at a time. meaning if both cards are plugged in, linux won't do anything.

if 1 of the card is un-plug, another card is plugged, then linux can install the apporicate drivers and start function accordingly.

after going through some howtos, most of them claimed pci cards are auto detected, which is true, but in this case.... it is only auto detected if only 1 card is plugged.

thanks for your time and advise

Hi,

I had the same problem with Slackware 10 trying to use 2 NICs. The solution I was given was to add to the rc.local file the following lines...

# Bring up second ethernet interface on 192.168 subnet
ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.4 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0

# Route all trafic to 192.168.100.0 subnet via eth1
route add -net 192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth1


HTH

Mike

thanks for the response MikeAtVillage,

however, when i issue: ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.4 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
i get:

so i think eth1 is not properly setup at all... and since it doesn't detect at boot, i dunno what to do :P