I might have the answer. The card is 10/100 and the antenna interface is base10. Could it be the driver for the card does not recognize the base 10? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
-----Original Message----- From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:43 PM To: Chris Mason Cc: Debian-User; recipient.list.not.shown:; Subject: Re: two card clash it would be helpful if you included output from dmesg, and also did you try to insmod the rtl8139 module manually ? if it loads(with or without errors) run dmesg again and see what the kernel says. i have run dual 3com 3c905s and dual rtl8139s with no trouble. there is the matter of the PCI bus, if you are installing a 2nd card after the system is configured and it is in a lower pci slot, the system would detect it first making the 2nd card eth0, but thats not a linux problem(in my opinion) nate On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris Mason wrote: chris >Corel Linux - Intel box chris >I installed the OS with one rtl8139 netowrk card in it, the OS found the card and loaded the right module which was assigned in the /etc/conf.modules file. The network functioned and running an ifconfig command revealed eth0 was assigned properly and all the parameters were correct. chris >I closed down and added another rtl8139 card. I booted and there was no network cards in ifconfig, no networking functioning. chris > chris >How do I avoid this problem? Is it an IRQ problem? I thought PCI avoided this. chris > chris >Chris Mason chris >Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies chris >Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 chris >USA Fax (561) 382-7771 chris >Take a virtual tour of the island chris >http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide chris >Find out more about NetConcepts chris >www.netconcepts.ai chris >bwz*mq chris > chris > chris >-- chris >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null chris > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 4:35pm up 7 days, 22:15, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.11, 0.04 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null