If I remember correctly you may have to compile the driver into
the kernel to get two of the same type of cards to work. I don't
know if this got fixed in recent kernels or not. The easy fix
is to use a different network card. Also, you might make sure
you have these in your /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules?):
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11
Then try "modprobe eth0" and "modprobe eth1". If your cards are
found, reboot and then configure the interfaces from the gui.
At 02:20 PM 10/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have installed Storm 2000 on a machine and intend to use it as a
>firewall. I'm sure I have too much installed as I just went for the
>"normal' installation.
>
>There are 2 Novell/Eagle NE2000 Plus ISA cards in the machine with the
>IOs @ 0x300 and 0x340, the IRQs @ 10 and 11. Neither one was found by
>the system, in fact, when I tried to modprobe I got a message stating
>that eth0 was an unknown interface; No such device.
>
>I did some reading and found out I should create an alias for eth0 and
>eth1 in the /etc/modules.conf file. Of course Debian creates that
>file from the aliases file in /etc/modutils and changes should
>be made there. So I added
># alias eth0 ne
>with a comment (#) at the start of the line, then ran update-modules.
>I know, that seems strange but the note in the aliases file said to
>UNcomment the lines you don't want to load. I even rebooted to make
>sure the changes took effect.
>
>Lo and behold, I was able to get eth0 up but it is NOT found on boot
>up. I then followed the same procedure for eth1, but it doesn't work.
>After trying modprobe (no message, just go to next line) I still get
>the 'unknown interface; No such device' message trying to run ifup.
>Neither card is found on boot up and I have no problems getting eth0
>up manually or through SAS.
>
>I have tried adding
>options ne io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11
>to the aliases file but that doesn't seem to make any difference...
>maybe it should go somewhere else?
>
>I'm sure this is a simple thing and I am just trying to make it
>extremely difficult. I tried a single floppy firewall called Freesco
>and it found both cards with no problems, but it runs with an older
>2.0.x kernel. Just for fun I tried another floppy firewall and it
>won't find the cards at all.
>
>Any ideas? I can bring it in tonight if someone wants to 'play
>around' with it and show me how to fix it...
>
>Dave
>
>
>
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