Donald Becker wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, MONZ wrote:
>
> > I have four 3c905 cards in a firewall/router, each its own IRQ and I/O.
> > BIOS detects tham all and initializes them, ie., with a hub connected,
> > all display connection ok. It's an Aopen PII/III mobo, don't have its
> > version.
> >
> > Booting Linux, two cards consequently goes dead while network in
> > started.
>
> My first reaction: two of your slots share bus-master pins.
Before I changed to a Dlink DFE570TX, I tried compiling the 905 driver
into the kernel. Now all four 905 cards could be initialized, fine, but
the setup didn't work anyway, that is, I couldn't even ping the two
cards which has given me trouble all along.
The Dlink fourport worked troublefree, but I couldn't use just a single
905 alongside, two interfaces always got a shared IRQ, must be BIOS
related, though I disabled anything not needed, like parallel ports...
Still need five interfaces, so I had to use a (yrk) 509 ISA for one of
the least loaded segments. Oh well, it works...
--
Regards,
Mogens Valentin
Networking - Security - Programming
Linux configuration and troubleshooting
http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz - monz@danbbs.dk
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