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Re: two ethernet cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Douglass)
Mon Nov 4 05:29:39 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Nov 1996 10:44:09 +0100."
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 05:24:41 -0500
From: Jeff Douglass <jmd@norfolk.infi.net>
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> I realilize that this is probably a silly question, but I need to ask it.
> At work, we loaded Redhat 4.0. We have two 3c5O9 cards in it and it only
> sees one of them. We have tried recompiling the kernel, adding an append
> statement in lilo.conf, etc. but nothing works. Is there something
> special that needs to be done besides the usual ifconfig's and things like
> that? Both of the same cards worked fine in Slakware 1.2.1 before.
>
I have the same setup on a machine and found it necessary to make the
3c509 support *not* a module before recompiling the kernel. Both 3c509
cards were then immediately visible. You also must disable PnP via the
3Com DOS diskette (3c5x9cfg.exe??) and set the IRQ, IO address, etc.
manually.
Regards,
Jeff Douglass
jmd@norfolk.infi.net
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