Subject: Re: multiple isa ep* devices
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/20/1997 23:08:06
On Fri Jun 20 22:51:59 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> 
> >I've got two 3Com 509 ethernet cards, and I'd like to put both of them
> >in one box.  The PNP support doesn't seem complete for them, so I've
> >put them in non-PNP mode, and I gave them different irqs and base
> >addresses.  However, I can't get the kernel to recognize them.  Here's
> >what I've tried:
> 
> If these are 3c509B's, they should work in PnP mode.  One card
> certainly does work.  The trick is, you have to remove the non-PNP isa
> entry from your kernel config first, because doing the ISA scan for
> 3c509s messes up the PnP configuration state.
> 
> The ep manual page should describe this -- oops, it doesnt :(.

No, the ep manual page shouldn't describe this, -current doesn't has
this problem, but it has other PnP problems (it uses irq's which are
allready in use by other drivers).

Bernd