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Subject: Re: Multiple de NIC's dectected, not used
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Eric J. Schwertfeger writes:
> I'm trying to get two PCI 10BaseT nics to work in two of my machines, but
> it only wants to use the first one.
>
> I've got both
>
> 	device de0
> 	device de1
>
> in my config file, and this turns up in the log file.  Note that while
> there are two lines for de0, which gets used, there is only one line for
> de1, which doesn't show up on an ifconfig -a.
>
> Feb  1 09:34:44 alexandria /kernel: de0 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17
> int a irq 9 on pci0:19
> Feb  1 09:34:44 alexandria /kernel: de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
> Ethernet address 00:20:18:50:53:a5
> Feb  1 09:34:45 alexandria /kernel: de1 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17
> int a irq 9 on pci0:20
> Feb  1 09:34:45 alexandria /kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
>
> This is on 2.1.5-RELEASE.
>
> I did check the mailing archives, and only found references to
> multi-ethernet on a single card problems, at least once people got both de
> lines in the config file.
>
> Any suggestions?

Hmmm.  Both your boards are being assigned IRQ 9, which I believe
doesn't work under PCI either.  I just don't understand how this could
happen: I thought the PCI setup code in the BIOS would avoid this.
Can you allocate a different IRQ to the second board?

Greg