Re: Problem with multiple 3C509 enet cards.
Bret McDanel (bret@real.com)
Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:00:12 GMT
> On to the question. We are trying to set up a machine with two 3C509
> cards. We used the DOS utility to set them to different ports and
> interrupts, and we disabled the plug and play support. We also have
> Donald Becker's linux configure tool, and tried it too.
> Unfortunately, we have yet to get both cards to be recognized at
> startup. Inevitably, one of them will be ignored. We also noticed
> that a status light on one of the boards goes out during the boot
> process.
>
> --
> Rob
>
We did that (same cards).. it works fine.. but the problem is that the
kernel stops scanning after its first card.. so you MUST use lilo (or
loadlin, you gotta pass the kernel an arguement)...
append="ether=0x12,0x360,eth1"
is what we used (out of lilo.config) course you may have to change the port and
all..
I also heard that if you put in
ether=0,0,eth1 it will auto detect the ports used..