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Re: Dual EEPro/10+



On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Ohad M. Somjen wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ohad M. Somjen wrote:
> > 
> > > hi,
> > > is there somebody in this list
> > > that was successful in installing
> > > two Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ in
> > > one computer.
[snip]
> > 
> > I believe that you are wasting your time with modules. Compile the support
> > directly into the kernel and then use
> > 
> > 	append = "reserve=0x200,32 ether=0,0x200,eth1"
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> how will that help me ?
> i have two ether cards (2 io, 2 irq) and here you 
> reserve only one io address.

RTFM, the first IRQ is probed automatically by the kernel adapter support,
the second one is only probed if you reserve the address.

> 
> if you'll come out with a solution that will allow me
> not to use modules i'll be more happy since the machine 
> which has this two cards is supposed to be my masquerading
> server. so it needs the cards on constantly.
> but i don't know how to do this without modules,
> remember that i also need to configure them first
> with isapnp.

Did you *try* the above? This is how I configured all of my multi-adapter
firewalls in the bad old days before PCI.

You don't seem to understand that this is a solved problem, and that you
can't do it with modules. Many people have been in this situation before.
Why do you have to learn the hard way?

[snip]

 - yba


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