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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.unb.ca!nbt.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: tony_mcneill@miti.nb.ca (Tony McNeill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: help - multiple enet cards in P100 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:12:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: NBNet Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4c0slu$1gi6@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> Reply-To: [Default: blank] NNTP-Posting-Host: blackhole.miti.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.38 I am having trouble getting 3 ethernet cards to run in an IBM 350 P100 machine running bsdi. I can get 2 cards to run but not the third. The cards are both 3com 3c509b and SMC Ultra 8216t (I have 3 of each). I can get 1 3com (with link1 option set) and 1 SMC to run but not two of the same kind. I have tried all the interrupts (2,3,5,7,10,11,15) and all the base addresses from 250 to 300. I have gone into cmos and disabled the serial ports and parallel port to free up irq's 3,5,and 7. The closest I get is when I have the 3com set to 270 irq 10 and the smc at 280 irq 3 with ram at d000. If I then plug in an smc at 260 and 5 (or 7) with a ram address of cc00 I get an error message during the boot that says "2-port memory error at CC00". If I change the ram to something else (c000, d400, e000) it never sees the card at all and of course there is no error message. Has anyone been able to get 3 cards to work? Is the issue with the ram addressing? I am also running svga which might be taking up some of the base ram (assuming that it runs that way) during bootup, dmesg says that the 3com is set to 250 irq 15. I read that bsdi defaults the card to irq 15 but I had set it to 270 and irq 10 using 3c5x9cfg.exe in dos. Is the message correct or is it lying to me? Thanks for the help /Tony