Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:47:13 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, "Michael Aucoin" <maucoin01@mediaone.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Different Device Names for Identical NICs Message-ID: <004101c0ac52$99befbe0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <087101c0ac46$38542260$817e03cb@apana.org.au>
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The 3c509 driver is still a bit flaky, I'm sorry to report. I was setting up a router a while ago where I wanted to install a total of 5 3c509 cards. This was an older 486/66 with all ISA slots and a SCSI card, and no serial, parallel or rodent port cards in it. I was able to get the ep driver to recognize all 5 cards, but no matter how I switched the interrupts and ports around with the 3c5x9cfg program, I could never get more than 4 cards to actually send and receive packets on the Ethernet. (and yes I had all other nic drivers disabled) I've also had weird problems with 3c579 cards in EISA boxes which use the same driver. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young >Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:19 PM >To: Rick Hamell; Michael Aucoin >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Different Device Names for Identical NICs > > >Are you certain ?? ..... I don't have the machine here right now but I'd >swear I've >had two 509s in one of those prehistoric Unisys systems with the >16 x 30 pin >RAM >slots & both working OK > >> >> > Is it possible to use two identical NICs in the same system? >I have not >> > been successful in that it seems only one device name is >recognized (ep0 >> > for my two 3c509s). >> >> You need to recompile your kernal with ep1 in there to reconize >> the 2nd NIC. :) >> >> Rick >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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