How to add ethernet cards (also interrupt problems)
Hi folks,
I seem to have a couple of problems setting up my ethernet cards. I've
set up my system as a router, hence it has two ethernet cards. Both
cards are 3COM Fatsh Ethelink XL 10/100 (I think the driver is 3c59x).
Either way for some reason during installation of my debian (2.1) system
neither ethernet card was installed. After boot I can use modprob 3c59x
and it finds both of them.
1) How can I get the system to automatically recognize the cards at boot
up? Right now I have to manually configure the cards and the routing
table after each boot.
2) The cards are both using IRQ 11. Which I can imagine is not good.
How do I prevent this from occurring? The I/O addresses is different
fro each, but I'm not sure if this is enough to prevent problems.
3) When I look cat /proc/pci, it would appear that alll my devices are
using IRQ 11 (IDE, Video card, ethernet cards). I can't see how my
system is even running with everyone sharing one IRQ?!? Any idea? Of
course when I looked at cat /proc/interrupts it lists my IDE controllers
as IRQ 14,15 and only my ethernet cards both on IRQ11. So may I've just
misread the cat /proc/pci.... At anyrate I'm still worried about both
ethernet cards sharing an IRQ. How can I change this? And how do I
make sure that I'm not going to conflict with any other hardware?
Thanks,
Joshua
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