Two NICs in one machine - how?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed Aug 8 19:13:56 2001

I should be able to check/set the IRQ's and such automatically to prevent
conflicts as they are microchannel but I'll recheck. One thing I did think
of is that maybe they're both holding the same MAC address or adapter
address, which is something I need to check. As far as the machine's
bios/setup and NT care they are both working fine without a conflict.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Roger Merchberger
-> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:47 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Two NICs in one machine - how?
-> As they're both 3Com nic's my guess would be is that they're
-> trying to grab
-> the same IRQ (and/or DMA if they use DMA) and there's IRQ conficts with
-> both of them in the machine.
->
-> The only thing I can think of is if you have some DOS-based 3Com
-> NIC setup
-> software, boot the box with a dos boot disk with 1 of the NICs in the
-> machine, and configure the card to use a different IRQ (like,
-> say, IRQ 5 if
-> you only have one printer port) then shutdown, insert the 2nd
-> card & see if
-> it boots OK.
->
-> Dunno if this'll help, but I hope it does!
-> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 19:13:56 BST