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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP Multiple ethernet cards in bsd box
Date: 16 Oct 1996 23:31:19 GMT
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Thomas B. Fox (tom@oliverdesign.com) wrote:

: Hello all,


: I'm having some trouble getting BSD to recognize more than one
: ethernet card. At boot it says that it sees 2 ethercards at ports 220
: and 300 but only identifies the one at 300 (irq10) properly. The
: cards are 3com 3c509b and 3c509. 

: PLEASE HELP!

  Are one of these a PNP card?   I have an old version of the 509 which
came with a drivers disk to tell the card what to do with itself..

  The new PNP versions also have this option..

: Tom