Subject: Re: 3c509 driver
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/06/1996 19:31:54
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> > Have you turned off "Plug and Pray" in config utility ?
>
> Generally this is a good suggestion, but I'm not seeing how that makes a
> difference here (after all, they are recognized at the same I/O address).
>
> > My solution is to distinguish the cards by MAC address in netstart,
> > "ifconfig -a" will tell you "who is who".
>
> That's an "interesting" solution.
>
> However, if you are compiling your own kernels (which you should do
> anyway), you can just specify the I/O addresses that you expect the 3C509
> cards to reside at.
I use that for PCI cards mostly, AFAIK they don't have any static port
address.
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