At 05:39 PM 4/10/02 -0700, David Smead wrote: [...] > >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. [...]
If these NICs are 3c509s on the ISA bus, they aren't PnP. It's hard to understand how *any* two work together, since they should have fixed IRQ assignments that will often conflict. Some pairs might work, but if all possible pairs work, then so should all possible triples and quads (except that I didn't realize that you could find P75s with 4 isa slots). When you say adding the other two "has no effect" ... what effects have you looked for? Most interface-related commands report only *configured* interfaces. The command "ifconfig -a" is the important exception (it's the main reason I'm unhappy when ifconfig isn't part of distros). Do you see any reports of the NICs during boot/init? If you try to hand configure eth2 or eth3 from the command line, what happens? While there is something wrong with your setup, what you've told us isn't quite enough to identify what that something is. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
