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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: help - multiple enet cards in P100 Date: 30 Dec 1995 14:20:52 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4c3hs4$97p@hops.entertain.com> References: <4c0slu$1gi6@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp007.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4c0slu$1gi6@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca>, tony_mcneill@miti.nb.ca (Tony McNeill) says: > >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. [snip] >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? > > Does this mean you are hoping the EEPROMs on the card will use those settings? I thought that BSDi requires you to modify the kernel to specify irqs and dma addresses for ethernet cards...