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Re: network card problem



On Monday 12 November 2001 10:51 am, Richard Weil wrote:
> I just installed a second network card in a machine in
> which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old
> 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to
> /etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask,
> but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On
> bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it can't
> load a module for the card (though it successfully
> loads one for eth0 -- and it's the same kind of card).
> [The messages aren't in dmesg when I look later.] I'm
> running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel. Any help
> is appreicated. Thanks.
>
> Richard

The cards may be setup for using the same resources. Use 'el3diag' from the 
3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the settings, to change them you 
would need the DOS utility for the card. 
-- 
Greg Madden



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