Re: Two ISA NICs

[David P James <dpjames@rogers.com>]

mike was roused into action on 2003-03-02 07:58 and 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.
>
> Any clues appreciated.

Try looking at my reply to a similar question and if that doesn't help...

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg01502.html

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