This isn't much info.
I don't have much experience, or success, with cards built into the
motherboard. So, just some suggestions, in no particular order.
What do you see when the computer boots up in /var/log/messages or with
dmesg?
When things were bad, what did ifconfig show?
What configuration options are available on the MB for your card?
Since cards are cheap, just running with two PCI NIC's might be the easiest
solution.
As I understand things, eth0, eth1, are assigned automatically by Linux, and
so what you think is eth0 might really be eth1. This has to do with which
slots the cards are in. That could likely be why things stopped working
when you installed the new card.
I had to add some extra stuff to my lilo.conf to make two network cards
work. Here is my current append statement in my lilo.conf:
append = "aha152x=0x340,12,7 ether=0,0,eth1, hdc=52946,16,63"
Do your drivers conflict? Does one driver improperly attempt to configure
the wrong card? Do you have to pass settings to your drivers ? Shouldn't if
they are PCI, but is the MB card PCI or ISA?
Moral: This should teach you the hazards of using graphical thingees to
configure hardware.
Joel
> Added a second NIC to a basically stock COL 3.1 installation. The
> system had a 3c59x NIC on the MB, it was set for a static IP with a
> gateway. I added a PCI Linksys, tulip, NIC with another static IP on a
> separate net but no gateway. Well the original NIC stopped working,
> 3c59x, it would not receive data that was, by all appearances makeing
> it back (the act light was blinking in the appropriate manner). Tried
> moving the IP's around on the NICs and the problem followed the IP, the
> eth's worked fine with the standard IP and no gateway setting.
>
> Spent hours fiddling, finally got it going, but I think the next reboot
> will put me back at square 1. I got it going by killing the eth1 and
> removing the tulip module, would've been the same with the 3c59x I am
> sure. Reinstalled the tulip module and resetup the eth1 interface.
> This was all done using the graphical kcontrol program that came with
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