Hello Eric,
the two cards are indeed ISA-cards:
3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP
I have rescued a handful old isa-cards from the junk
yard and I would like to put them to good use also
with Bering. Of course, these two cards will serve as
slower side interfaces on the intended access point.
On
Hello Mats,
It looks like grml uses some sort of isapnp. I guess the problem is indeed
a shared address space. Most of those old cards have a (dos) utility to
configure the addresses, a switch to enable/disable pnp and/or a few
jumpers to set IRQ/address.
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result
I have used many of these cards in Bering routers and the trick is to assign
the correct parameters using the DOS utility. I have the utility on a DOS
6.22 bootable disk so I put the first card in, boot the utility and run it
to set the parameters I want, then shut it down, swap cards, boot up and
