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RE: 2 3com905b network cards - not recognized



Title: RE: 2 3com905b network cards - not recognized

Yes it's  905b net cards and i compiled the 509c driver in order to use them.

I thought the whole point about pci was to be recognized automaticly, so pnp ?

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastiaan [mailto:S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL]
Sent: 07 November 2002 17:14
To: Mikael Jirari
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: 2 3com905b network cards - not recognized


High,

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Mikael Jirari wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two 3com 905b in my box, but only one is recognized.
> I compiled the drivers into the kernel since i'm not using modules at
> all.
>
Which driver have you compiled in? These cards use the 3c59x driver.

> What can I do so the two network cards to be recognized ?
>
> I read somewhere that disabling the Pnp option could resolve the
> problem but is there a way to fix the problem without doing that ?
>
3c905b are PCI cards, so they are not PnP (at least, there is no option to disable that). This was nescessary for the 3c509 cards).

> I think the system is assigning the same irq to the network cards
> (really not sure about what i'm saying)
>
If you are really talking about the 905 PCI and NOT the 509 ISA cards, this should not be a problem.

> Also, how can i do the irq setup manually ?
>
If you really think this is the probnlem, do some standard PCI IRQ stuff. First try with 1 card, switch cards in PCI slots and/r do some magic in the BIOS.

Greetz,
SEbastiaan

 > Thanx
>



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