Re: Two 3Com ethernet NIC : don't work

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Alex wrote:

> In my home pc (a P-III 933 MHz) is installed since 1
> year an ethernet card 3C905C Tornado and it works fine
> with Windows XP and Fedora Core 2.
> Now I need (for some simple network experiment) to
> install a second nic, a 3C905B Cyclone.
> With Windows XP no problem: this OS configure these
> two nic without any error.
> But with FC2 (kernel 2.6.5) I can't use the second nic
> (eth1).

<snip>

> I've removed these nic and I've installed (thanks to
> my friend) two Intel nic: they works correctly without
> any problem. Kernel detect and use eth0 and eth1
> without any problem.
> 
> So, what's wrong with my two 3C905B/C ?
> Someone can help me ?

There may be nothing wrong with your NIC.

Try adding "alias eth1 3c59x" to your /etc/modprobe.conf file, and try it 
again.
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