rtl8139 - detection and installation of two

[guran <svante430@linuxfreemail.com>]

Hi

I am setting up a firewall based by Debian 3.0 Woody and an old Pentium 133 
with two rtl8139 NIC's.

Please notice that these are my observations from a 'top-down' perspective.

Only the first card was fully installed as eth0. After fruitless attempts I 
installed Slackware 8.1 which detected the cards as rtl8139 and rtl8139-e 
(from memory). It too wrote about irq conflicts.
I reinstalled Woody based on the eth1 card and everything was fine. Then I 
reinstalled with both the cards and found the irq conflict in the dmesg file.

I have now switched the eth1 card to one on via-rhine so I may be on my way.

Is it possible that the detection algoritm is confused by not two equal 
responses of rtl8139? It ought to be possible to use two equal cards based on 
the different card positions.

regards
guran
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Mandrake Linux 8.2