Re: second nic card

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:59:52AM -0400, Mark DeWar wrote:
> First of all linux newbie. really newbie. very newbie.
> i have installed redhat 6.0 from cd on to my computer.
> i have one nic in it. an isa under novell 2000 compatible. irq 5 io 300.
> i went to put in a second nic. a netgear pci 10/100. the diag program says
> the nic is at io 6000h and irq 11.
> 
> when i do a ifconfig it shows only eth0
> i tried to add the second nic with ifconfig eth1 io_addr 6000 io irq 11 and
> get a device not found.

I'm just guessing, but I think that card needs the tulip driver and
that (since it's pci) you don't need to provide it any arguments (io,irq),
it should get that information from the PCI BIOS.

If anyone else knows for sure which driver to use, please speak up.

-- 
Steve Borho