> I have read docs saying you need to pass command lines to the kernel to > tell it to probe for >1 NIC (of the same type); however when I did it That's for two *ISA* cards; PCI has a lot more "standard magic" so it generally finds them with no trouble. (The hassle is enough that a cheap 486 really is more painful than a cheap pentium for a firewall setup, though once it works, you don't care...)