On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:36:12PM +0200, guran wrote: > 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. From my firewall machine: (Linux Keitaro 2.4.17 #1 Sun Jan 27 14:09:44 EST 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux) Jul 23 01:39:27 keitaro kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.22 Jul 23 01:39:27 keitaro kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc4811000, 00:05:1c:01:67:5f, IRQ 9 Jul 23 01:39:27 keitaro kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' Jul 23 01:39:27 keitaro kernel: eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc4813000, 00:05:1c:01:d5:a0, IRQ 11 Jul 23 01:39:27 keitaro kernel: eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' So it works for me... Although mine aren't sharing IRQs... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 5th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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