Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...)
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:08:07PM -0700, Philippe BARBELET wrote: > Hi Debian friends, > > I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. > > At boot time, the system says : > > 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA > and MCA bus!! > loading device 'eth0'... > eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 34 e8 44, > IRQ 3. > 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My lilo.conf file is correctly configured : > > append="ether=0,0,eth1" > > but the system doesn't see the second card. I think that the probing > test doesn't work > correctly. > > If I put just 1 card at a time, the card is always recognized. IIRC, the kernel boot paramaters only work if the driver is compiled into the kernel. If you are compiling it as a module (eg default Debian setup) you need to edit /etc/conf.modules and add a line like: ``options 3c509 io=0xAAA,0xBBB irq=CC,DD'' where 0xAAA and CC are for eth0, and 0xBBB and DD are for eth1. Note that I'm not certain about the specific parameters, you might want to read the driver source if it dosen't work- alternatively, you could just recompile your kernel with the 3c509 driver in the kernel instead of a module. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...)
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Philippe BARBELET wrote: : Hi Debian friends, : : I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. : : At boot time, the system says : : : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA : and MCA bus!! : loading device 'eth0'... : eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 34 e8 44, : IRQ 3. : 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : My lilo.conf file is correctly configured : : : append="ether=0,0,eth1" I believe you want a line more like append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1" This implies that you've used 3C5X9CFG.EXE from the 3Com driver disks to manually set the cards to these addresses (or whichever addresses you choose). This line was taken from a working lilo.conf from a machine with two 3C509B cards. Both were set to no plug-and-play, and the IRQs and I/O addresses were set manually. Oh, the card with the lower MAC address will always be eth0, no matter how you denote them on the append line (so if the card at IRQ 11 in my example had a lower MAC address, the kernel would assign eth0 to THAT card and eth1 to the card at IRQ 10. Weird, but that's the way it works.) Hope this helps, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 ethernet cards (more ...)
Hi Debian friends, I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. At boot time, the system says : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA and MCA bus!! loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 34 e8 44, IRQ 3. 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My lilo.conf file is correctly configured : append="ether=0,0,eth1" but the system doesn't see the second card. I think that the probing test doesn't work correctly. If I put just 1 card at a time, the card is always recognized. Thanks for your help. Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
