Re: your mail

[ktb <ktb@nixnotes.org>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:18:59AM -0700, 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.

Download the utility package from the 3com site.  Don't remember the
name of the package.  Boot the computer with a windows boot disk.  Slip
the second 3com floppy in and run "3c5x9cfg"

Turn pnp off if they are set that way and set the IRQs to what you want.
hth,
kent

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