Hello,
I have a machine with on-board SiS900 and not-on-board RTL8139 (rev k) ethernet cards. In windows they work perfectly well (one is connected through Samsung ADSL router to actcom, and the other one is connected to another computer).
In Linux, however, things are awfully wrong.
After defining the sis900 as eth0, and rtl8139 (8139too) as eth1, things started to get wrong. I can insmod the correct modules, I can release them, etc.
However, ifconfig is not happy with "upping" the links (not even the LAN link, no IPchains, no nothing). I get all the time an error message about not succeeding to identify the irq, connecting Pin A to irq 0. try with biospci=irq,...
Anyone has any pointer/idea what the hell is wrong (besides the darn IRQ thing) and How can I fix it?
Interesting, I had the very same problem with a new computer that came with anon-board sis900 bought from Excellnet (btw, the last time I do this mistake...).
After a lot of wasted time (BIOS upgrades etc) I noticed that even in the BIOS POST screen the network card is not listed as assigned an IRQ by the BIOS and so told the vendor to replace it. They did (not after telling me it's an OS problem and me explaining that the BIOS POST screen shows up before the OS etc etc), which resolved this problem.
I still can't get the sis9000 card to work for other reason, but the new "implmented" RealTek I put in there works great.
Hope this helps, Gilad
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