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  From: Jo\\ao Campos <jcampos@icat137.icat.fc.ul.pt>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:45:24 +0100

2 ethernet P&P trouble AND The UNIX Guru's view of sex

Hi.

I'm trying to put 2 NIC's to work with Linux and having trouble.
The setup is: RH 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15, 2x 3Com 3C905B 100bTX

Each of the cards work separately, but when booting the two together,
the one in the lower slot won't boot.

>From /proc/pci:

  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
      I/O at 0x6900 [0x6901].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7001000 [0xe7001000].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 36).
      Vendor id=10b7. Device id=0.
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
Gnt=10.Max Lat=5.
      I/O at 0x6a00 [0x6a01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7002000 [0xe7002000].


If I change the order, the other one boots fine.

Now, for something real weird: The first time I composed this mail the
computer suddenly rebooted. It booted up, did the fsck, and then
everything worked correctly. Both the NIC's worked.

I have written the

alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x

in /etc/conf.modules and 

append = "ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2 ether=0,0,eth3"

in lilo.conf and rerun lilo.

How to solve this mess, and put the two cards to work?



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The UNIX Guru's view of sex



unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount;
sleep


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Thank you.

-- 
Joćo Campos

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