Re: Two ISA NICs

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

mike wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've got a Debian Woody.
> I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess).
> And I've got a problem :)
>
> A fragment of dmesg:
> eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5
> eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 57 4d 4e, IRQ 10
>
> Both of the cards are configured statically in
> /etc/network/interfaces. However only one of the works at the time,
> the second one behaves weird:
>
> ifup eth1
> interface eth1 already configured
>
> ifdown eth1
> SIOCDELRT: no such process
>
> ifup eth1
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
>
> The same goes for eth0 if eth1 have been raised first.

I had problems like that until i gave them both different
IP addresses on different nets.