Re: [SLUG] Two Network Cards....

From: Ed Centanni (ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 23:33:07 EDT


It appears that some hardware -- cards or mobo -- got damaged by a
faulty power supply. Try some new (known good) cards or swap the
suspect cards to a known good mobo.

Ed.

Mark wrote:
>
> Ok, here's another quandry.
>
> Machine was normal until the power supply blows up. I replace it and boot
> up. Well, not the kernel sees one Nic card and halfway sees the other.
>
> 'dmesg' shows eth0 but not eth1
>
> /proc/pci shows both of them
> /proc/interrupts shows only eth0
>
> 'ifconfig eth0' works fine
> 'ifconfig eth1' doesn't
>
> BIOS wasn't changed - I have gone through it playing with the IRQ
> allocation in case it was being 'difficult'
>
> Moving the cards around in the slots disable both cards - they aren't seen
> at all by the kernel.
>
> (3Com905TX)
>
> Anyone have a clue or do I need to continue this change-reboot cycle?
>
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