It seems to me that you need not to declare io ports and irqs for your 2
3c509 cards. Linux automatically recognises them. All you have to do is
setting up different io ports and irqs for them by using 3c5x9cfg.
Hope it helps.
Daryl Williams wrote:
> folks,
>
> i am trying to use 2 3com ISA 3c509B nics using loadable modules
> on a debian system. unfortunately they both want to use the same
> io address and irq. searching through the ethernet-howto i found
> an explanation of how to set both the io and irq entries in the
> /etc/conf.modules file. however when i try this approach i get
> an error message that states that there is no "io" symbol in
> the 3c509.o object file. using nm i have been able to verify
> that the "irq" symbol does indeed exist, but the "io" symbol
> refered to in the ethernet-howto does not. it appears that
> i have successfully set the irq using the howto method.
> my question is, is there a way to set the io base address
> on the 3c509?
>
> if any replies could be cc'd to my email address i would
> appreciate it, as i am not sure i have succecfully subscribed
> to this list yet...
>
> tia,
>
> //daryl
>
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