2 3com nics, 1 box :)

Hey all. I am trying to setup 2 3com 509B ISA cards in 1 machine. if I do ifconfig -a I see eth1 and eth0. they are both using the same resources (IRQ 10, address 0x300) so obviously I can only assign 1 of them a IP. I know I can do something in modules.conf but im not sure what I should do. I

Re: 2 3com nics, 1 box :)

Hello, I have experience with 3com's 509B. It is a difficult card to configure, but easy to do. Go to 3com's website and download the second driver disk. Unpack it (might work with upzip, else you should load msdos) and copy the file 3c5X9CFG.EXE to a floppy. Start with a bootable floppy and run

Re: 2 3com nics, 1 box :)

fut0n wrote: Hey all. I am trying to setup 2 3com 509B ISA cards in 1 machine. if I do ifconfig -a I see eth1 and eth0. they are both using the same resources (IRQ 10, address 0x300) so obviously I can only assign 1 of them a IP. Try assigning IRQ' s for your ISA nics in the BIOS. Then they

Re: 2 3com nics, 1 box :)

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: Unpack it (might work with upzip, else you should load msdos) and copy the file 3c5X9CFG.EXE to a floppy. Start with a bootable floppy and run this You could also apt-get install 3c5x9utils instead, and run 3c5x9setup --help. You'll notice you can assign