Two NICs in one machine - how?

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Aug 9 03:04:56 2001

Microchannel cards tend not to have jumpers for most things though.

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great Sellam Ismail once stated:
> >
> > The most likely conflicts are hardware. Check the interrupts and the base
> > address each card is using. Try configuring them manually, rather than
> > allowing them to "plug 'n play" (if you aren't doing so already).
> >
> > NT might also be the culprit, but I'm a Linux guy.
>
> I've got a 486 with three NICs in it, one 3Com, one NE2000 and an NE2000
> clone (or at least it appears as an NE2000 to the system). When I added the
> third card, I had a problem with the 3Com, but that was because I had it
> jumpered for MEM access. Once I jumpered it for IO access it started
> working.
>
> All under Linux 2.0 mind you 8-)
>
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