hello,
Delaying initialization eth1 is the error i am getting while setting 2 nics on my mecrury motherboard which has one onboard nic.
how can i solve this? also it seems there is ?IRQ sharing problem between eth0(external) and eth1(internal) cards.
i am unable to access my 2 networks both eth's are statically set.

I'm afraid I've never seen that error message before. However, I Googled it and came up with a number of pages with the phrase "**** does not seem to be present, delaying initialization." If you are getting a similar message, I would suggest that your machine is having trouble finding one of the two NICs.

If you are having an IRQ sharing problem, that could be preventing one of the NICs from talking. Otherwise, you might need to ensure that you have the proper drivers loaded for eth1. As for the sharing problem, I wouldn't have the faintest how to resolve that...

both nics are taking same driver instead different (their own)as they belong to different device driver category does i have to do some manual changes?