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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.xciv.org!usenet From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Only one 3c509 (ep0)? Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:40:44 GMT Organization: XCIV Lines: 35 Message-ID: <529kgs$81@xciv.demon.co.uk> References: <526f5r$5ue@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> Reply-To: paul@xciv.org NNTP-Posting-Host: pantera.xciv.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xciv.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <526f5r$5ue@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx>, lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx (Larry Miller [DT]) writes: > We're slowly learning the ropes here, and have run into yet another > puzzle: in the 2.1.0 standard kernal, there are a number of NIC drivers > which list card 1 and card 2, eg ed0, ed1. The 3com 3c509 lists only 1, > ep0. Nevertheless, both the 3c509's we have installed are recognized on > the startup probes, so it KNOWS they are in the machine. (Probably > stupid) Question: how do we utilize both those 3c509's? Procedure: a) Put one ethernet card in the machine at a time, configure each one seperately with the setup disk supplied by the manufacturer (most of these setup programs can't handle 2 of the same type of ethernet cards in the machine at the same time). b) Once done, put both cards back in the box together. c) Duplicate the single ep0 line in the kernel config, make it ep1, adjust the values accordingly for the differnet IRQ etc of the second card. d) Build your kernel, reboot and hopefully it'll find them as ep0 and ep1 and you have yourself one ethernet to ethernet router. [Note, I think it's the 3c509 that has the driver listed as beta. I built a machine at work like the above and the machine randomly panics at bootup 50% of the time. However, once it has booted successly, it's fine, stays up no problem and doesn't panic. Most strange. ;) ] Have fun. -Paul- -- Paul Civati =O= Home: paul@xciv.org =O= http://www.xciv.org/ London UK =O= Home: paul@xciv.demon.co.uk =O= Slackware is.