Re: your mail

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 sjb@coastalden.net wrote:

> 
>  Hi, all -
>  
>  Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both
>  for use in a router.
>  
>  But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which
>  rather complicates things.
>  
>  I've tried the 3c5x9tools package, which doesn't do all
>  that much except let me know that there are 2 different  
>  cards, with different EEPROMs. Of course, if anyone knows a
>  way to use the EEPROMs so the system knows the left card
>  from the right, so to speak, that'd be useful.
>  
>  Meanwhile, if anyone has experience in dealing with these
>  particular cards, and knows of some wonderful way to get 
>  them playing nicely with each other, that'd be extremely
>  helpful.

i assume that they are both Plug'n'Pray isa cards, you can use pnpdump/isapnp
to configure the cards so they both use different irq/address .. i think the
package name was isapnptools ...

                                                Dingo.


                                      ).|.(
                                    '.'___'.'
                                   ' '(>~<)' '
   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Petr [Dingo] Dvorak                                 dingo@pdragon.org
    Coder - Purple Dragon MUD                       pdragon.org port 3333
   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=-
     Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 3 days, 12 users, load average: 1.00
   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-