Antonomasia wrote:
> I have recently got 2 old 486 boxes which I am trying to connect
> to my existing pentium like this:
>
> modem thin ether
> - - - [notatla]-------------[slash]--------------[quote]
> A B C D E
>
> A=194.222.156.169
> B=192.168.0.1
> C=192.168.0.2
> D=10.0.0.1
> E=10.0.0.2
>
> All network cards work individually, but the 2 in one box seem to
> clash. I've appended "ether=0,0,eth1" in lilo.conf.
> They are a NE2000-type (8019R) and a 3c509b. Advice welcome.
>
> [root@slash tmp]# dmesg
>
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 4f 4c 04 57 ca
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3.
> eth1: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 0d ad fc, IRQ 10.
Here lies the problem. You have your NEC card set with a base address of 0x300,
as well as the 3c509 card at 0x300. Intel boxes (rude comments held back =)
don't automatically configure their cards to not conflict, and many
manufacturers set their addressing the same as other manufactuers. Thankfully,
at least you can change the addressing yourself on most cards. I'm not familiar
with the NEC2000 card, but I know you can get the 3c905cfg.exe configuration
program (for DOS, unfortunately) and change the base address of your 3COM card
to something else.
-Fred
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