Re: 3C509 and tulip

Jesse Campbell (root@quakeii.ml.org)
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:27:33 +0000 (GMT)


Rather than waiting until 2.3.x, why don't we fix this. We are in a code
freeze now, meaning the only changes are "bug fixes" like this one.

Jesse
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On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 11:28:46PM -0600, James Rich wrote:
> > I am trying to put together a system which uses both a 3c509 and a
> > netgear (tulip) ethernet cards. However, on boot up only the tulip card
> > is found. I really need the second card as this is a server between 3
> > LANs (the third is on token-ring, works great). Any ideas on what I can
> > do to get the 3c509 recognized? This is with both cards compiled into
> > the kernel (not as modules).
>
> try adding append="ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1" to /etc/lilo.conf for the
> said kernel image.
>
> If you want to nail the 3c509 to either eth0 or eth1, then find its base and
> IRQ and do something like:
>
> append="ether=10,0x240,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1"
>
>
> As someone recently pointed out, Ethernet card probing is fairly broken at
> the moment, another thing to address when 2.3.x rolls around.
>
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> -cw
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