Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH!
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Peter Loje Hansen wrote:
>
[snip]
> > # dmesg|grep ^eth
> > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 10.
> > eth1: 3c509 at 0x220 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 20 af 59 c8 1b, IRQ 12.
> > eth2: 3c509 at 0x210 tag 2, BNC port, address 00 20 af 59 cc af, IRQ 5.
> > eth3: 3c509 at 0x230 tag 3, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 b7 0e 77, IRQ 11.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Notice that the 3COM cards are sorted by ethernet address. Apparently this
> is the only order in which Linux will recognize them. So, if you have
> multiple 3COM cards (don't know if it applies to other cards as well), the
> card with the lowest ethernet address must always have the lowest 'ethx'
> number.
>
> Remco
[snip]
Thank you, Remco, for that tip!
Apparently this was also my problem with three 3com Cards (3c509). I had
the problem, that only two of three cards did work. I have tried to give
them the right depending ethX-order and voila, they work. But i wonder
why the the driver depends on the order of the ethernet-addresses.
Yasar
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