this is a mutiport card installer choses de4x5. with this driver, only the first port works and there are bad messages on the console about autodetection....forcing the detection doesn't work the fix is to use the tulip driver instead lspci -v gives Subsystem : D-Link System Inc and Unknown device 1112 description is : Digital Equipement Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) the driver is loaded one time for each port configured installer should use tulip driver for this card
Passing to QA to reproduce.
Yes, I've seen this too, I have the exact same card. de4x5 works with this card under very strict circumstances; no full duplex for example and it generates tons of syslog every second for every interface that hasn't been connected, like: ---- eth1: media is 100Mb/s. eth2: media is 100Mb/s. eth1: media is unconnected, link down or incompatible connection. eth2: media is unconnected, link down or incompatible connection. eth1: media is 100Mb/s. eth2: media is 100Mb/s. eth1: media is unconnected, link down or incompatible connection. eth2: media is unconnected, link down or incompatible connection. --- Tulip driver is much better. There's a small issue of forced full duplex with it too, though.
Switched in kudzu > 0.88-1.