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From: mcr@metis.milkyway.com (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Using more than one ethernet card in BSD/OS (2.0)
Date: 20 Jul 1995 23:08:13 -0400
Organization: Milkyway Networks Corporation, Ottawa, ON
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In article <3tr886$o54@catalyst.mmt.com>,
Michael Ferioli <ferioli@disaster.com> wrote:
>You have to reconfigure the kernel to look for the card(s) at the specific
>address.  Out of the box, it looks for the 3Com's at 0x250... so it is 

  No, that is not true. 3c509's get completely configured by 
the kernel. You should soft configure them to different addresses
beforehand anyway.
  What you need to do is define an ef1 as well as an ef0.

>As for telling you the wrong IRQ, this seems to be a bug.  I had the same 

  Nope, the kernel decides. If there are conflicts with other devices
that the kernel does not know about then:

>you), you can hardcode the IRQ in the kernel config file as well as the 
>base address.

  Do not ask me how you can tell which card is which after they
have been configured, or if they are configured in the same order
each time. 
  This last bit is why we recommend SMC8216s for our firewalls :-)

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