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From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: help - multiple enet cards in P100
Date: 30 Dec 1995 14:20:52 GMT
Organization: ABWAM, Inc.
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In article <4c0slu$1gi6@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca>, tony_mcneill@miti.nb.ca (Tony McNeill) says:
>
>I am having trouble getting 3 ethernet cards to run in an IBM 350 P100
>machine running bsdi.  I can get 2 cards to run but not the third.

	[snip]

>during bootup, dmesg says that the 3com is set to 250 irq 15.  I read
>that bsdi defaults the card to irq 15 but I had set it to 270 and irq
>10 using 3c5x9cfg.exe in dos.  Is the message correct or is it lying
>to me?
>
>

Does this mean you are hoping the EEPROMs on the card will use those
settings?  I thought that BSDi requires you to modify the kernel
to specify irqs and dma addresses for ethernet cards...