Charles, Thanks for the `steer'. The machine I'm trying to turn into a firewall is a P75, Dell Optiplex XMT 575. Apparently there is no flash upgrade for it. I plugged the quad NIC into my debian box and booted Bering with the tulip driver. All interfaces came up! But I also see a dummy interface and am curious what is it for?
Back on the P75: I scrounged 4 NICs, 3com, 3C509B on the ISA bus. I booted with each one individually and copied down their MAC address. I can plug any two of them in and the lo and dummy interface comes up, along with eth0 and eth1. Adding two more for eth2 and eth3 has no effect. I supppose this has to do with plug and play. I don't have any Windows machines around, but I do have a DOS 6.22 floppy that boots. I'm just now trying to find out how to defeat PnP or work around it. Any and all clues are most welcome. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > Bad etiquette replying to myself, but since then I've discovered the the > > pci=biosirq is a kernel paramemeter, so I put it in the right place. > > > > That got rid of the suggestion to use the statement, but PCI now complains > > about not finding devices 01:20, 01:28, 01:30 and 01:38. And IRQ is still > > set to 0 for the four NICs. > > > > Bios is reported as version 2.10 but I haven't found information yet on > > what is required. > > Sounds like some sort of low-level problem with your PCI > chipset/bios/kernel. > > What sort of sytem (motherboard/CPU/chipset) are you running? > > Can you get another OS (windows, linux, or maybe a linux rescue CD...most > linux install disks have a "rescue" mode of some form) to see the cards? > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
