[PLUG] 2 NICs

[Derek Loree]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 14:47, Chris Emery wrote:
> Ok, so I booted with DrDos and used the dos setup program.  The good
> news is that within the program it appears that both NICs work.  The bad
> news is that in linux it still doesn't work, in the exact same manner.

Does the setup program have the ability to hard-set the IRQ and I/O? 
These values could then be used to load the modules with the appropriate
settings, kind of forcing the issue.  I've also seen it where identical
cards needed two separate modules to load, in that case, I just copied
the one module to a file with a different name, then had the kernel load
both modules.

HTH

Derek Loree  
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 14:00, Richard Langis wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to find the driver disk for the nic(s), and see 
> > if there's a configuration utility.  Install both nics, boot the driver 
> > disk (or other dos disk, then insert the driver disk), run the config 
> > utility and let it configure the nics for you.  THEN write down this 
> > information in case you need to pass kernel options or module options, 
> > and try to boot into linux.
> > 
> > I had two 3c509's that were set at the same IRQ/port/DMA and would panic 
> > the kernel every time until I reconfigured them using the above method.
> > 
> > Hope that helps, YMMV.  :)
> > 
> > -R
> > 
> 
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