Trouble with ethernet card

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to add a second ethernet card to a machine that already has one.
The first card is at 0x240, irq=11,  the second one is at 0x300, irq=9.  I
know that these do  not conflict with anything (the machine has an IDE
drive, two serial ports, two standard serial ports, and a modem at 03e8,
irq=5).

I have the following /etc/conf.modules:

alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x240 irq=11
options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x300 irq=9


Eth0 come up and work fine,  it was the original card.  The second card comes
up but any attempt to transmit result in:

NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 05 54 f3 d5
eth1: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9.

eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=888.
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=1000.

So what is the problem?  I have tried several cards and all do the same
thing?