Rebooting problems

[Kevin Brown]

Cliff Rogers wrote:
> Well I am back up and running but I did experience some problems. Mainly 
> when I shut down and then rebooted my Linux box the eth0 failed and then 
> the eth1 failed also. When I checked into it I found that eth1 had been 
> set up with the same IRQ and I/O assignments as eth1. After I changed 
> them it works good. Anyway I'll ask once more: Is this the way Linux 
> works? Do I have to re-configure the NIC's everytime I have to reboot 
> for some reason or is there something I am failing to do here? Any help 
> is appreciated. Happy New Year to all.  Cliff

No, you shouldn't have to reconfigure the NICs everytime you reboot.  I have 
several machines here that have more than one NIC in them and I don't have to 
reconfigure them when I reboot.  This seems more like a hardware issue (e.g. 
BIOS and PCI slot interaction).  Are the two NICs sitting side by side?  If so, 
try moving them to have a PCI slot empty (or filled with some other card) 
between them.