[PLUG] 2 NICs
Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com
Wed Sep 18 22:28:46 UTC 2002
derek at infotects.com said:
>> Ok, so I booted with DrDos and used the dos setup program. The good
>> news is that within the program it appears that both NICs work. The
>> bad
>> news is that in linux it still doesn't work, in the exact same manner.
>
> Does the setup program have the ability to hard-set the IRQ and I/O?
> These values could then be used to load the modules with the
> appropriate settings, kind of forcing the issue. I've also seen it
> where identical cards needed two separate modules to load, in that
> case, I just copied the one module to a file with a different name,
> then had the kernel load both modules.
I believe the devices in question are pci. pci configuration is soft, and
typically done by the bios. I wonder if a bios upgrade would solve the
problem. Does lspci or cat /proc/pci show both cards, despite only one
being functional? What does the scanpci command return?
galen
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