[H-GEN] Multi Network Cards...

[Bradley Marshall]

Hey,

> > Here's a question regarding 2 network cards while we're on the subject.
> > Bra dn I put 2 3c509 cards in a box tonight.  The box would fail to
> > recognise one of the.  The 2 cards were using irq 3,ioport 0x200 and
> > irq 10 and ioport 0x300.  The first of the 2 cards was seen but the 2nd
> > (irq 10) was always missed despite us doing an ether=10,0x300,eth1 line
> > and lots of variations.  Are there any known problems with putting 2 3c509
> > cards in a box?
> 3c5x9 cards have an extra setting: shared memory address
> 
> see if that is conflicting

3c5x9's *don't* actually have a shared memory address.  They use
programmed IO - the issue was that the ISA detection algortihm for 3c5x9's
are different - we ended up telling lilo to probe for the irq's, not the
ioport.  Reading the Ethernet HOWTO about your particualar card is useful
:)

Brad

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