[ale] Installing two NIC cards problems

[Brubakken, Eric]

I am trying to get two NIC cards installed in my RH6.1 machine at home.  But
as usual, my machine can only see one NIC card.  
 
I am using the tulip driver loaded as a module.
 
I have assigned alias in the conf.modules file
    alias eth0 tulip
    alias eth1 tulip
    options eth0 -o tulip-0
    options eth1 -o tulip-1
 
I have NOT assigned the IRQ in the conf.modules.  The Ethernet-HOWTO makes
reference that with PCI you should not need to.
 
I have also assign aliases using linuxconf - neither seem to have any
effect.
 
This is an old AMD Pentium 133MHz using PCI slots for the NIC cards.
 
I am using the Netgear 10/100 NIC cards.  When I swap the card location the
machine will see whatever card is in the master ( I hope ) slot.  But it
never does anything with the other card.  Under one of the KDE tools ( sorry
I'm brain dead and I don't remember which one ), I did find out that the one
card that is recognized is using IRQ 11 and the machine can determine what
the NIC card manufacture name is.  The other is using IRQ 10, but the
machine is unable to determine any thing else about it.  During the boot
process eth0 is initialized fine [OK} and eth1 [FAILED] - initialization
deferred.  I have been trying all different combs in the bios concerning the
PCI setup, but nothing seems to work.
 
Anyone have any suggestions?
 
Thanks in advance....
 
Eric T. Brubakken
 
Southern Energy Marketing
1155 Perimeter Center West
Suite 130
Atlanta, GA. 30338-5416
 
WP 678.579.5063
FAX 678.579.5769
 
 <mailto:eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com>
eric.brubakken at southernenergy.com
 
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