[AMD] 79c970 ethernet card problems.....

[bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr (Bruno Boettcher)]

hello!
my motherboard assigns it IRQ without any distinction, i have several
cards on the same interrupt, e.g. the 2 ethernet cards are on irq 10 at
the moment .... so maybe this is the real problem ... anyways i have:
lspci:
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet
LANCE] (rev 02)
  Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 10
  I/O ports at e000 [size=32]

/etc/modutils/network:
options lance io=0xe000 irq=10
alias eth1 lance  irq=10

in /var/log/messages:
Aug 29 12:25:16 kalman kernel: eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xdc00,
00:C0:F0:7B:E2:D6, IRQ 10.
Aug 29 12:25:16 kalman kernel: lance.c: No PCnet/LANCE card found (i/o =
0xe000).

same when i try to insmod it by hand:
 modprobe eth1
 /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/lance.o: init_module: No such
 device or address
 Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
 including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
 /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/lance.o: insmod
 /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/lance.o failed
 /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/lance.o: insmod eth1 failed


ayahhh, for a short time this second card responded to pings.... no it
wont even load.... what's going wrong? and is there any way i can change
the IRQ's of those damn cards? the module options need the iorq settings
but are completely ignoring them!

(and i have currently 4 cards on irq9 and 2 on irq10....)

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