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I am having trouble getting two 3com 3c59x cards to detect.
One is detected and set up by Kudzu, the other is not detected.
The cards exactly the same.
As A_K said you need to see if they were picked up by the PCI scan. If they were not, you'll need to find out why. Could be a plain old IRQ problem, so you may want to get the DOS setup program to fiddle with the addresses of the cards - or just reset them to factory defaults. You may also want to shuffle the actual PCI slot location of the cards as some boards 'reserve' a home for on-board devices (ATA controllers mostly).
If you can actually see the devices in /proc/pci you may want to try and get them up manually by using
Code:
modprobe 3c59x alias eth0
and
Code:
modprobe 3c59x alias eth1
If no errors result then you should be able to start your network.
Can you name all the possible methods for getting Linux to detect. i tried adding
alias eth1 3c59x
to modules.conf but nothing.
Where could i go to learn about the subnetting issue.
Does this subnetting problem occur with NT|2K, i'm trying to prove the Linux importance, so I am wondering if this is a Linux flaw or overall flaw.
it can easily be seen as a flaw, but going by the book, it is not.
ethernet, ieee802.3 is a bus network standard, whereby all machines in the network are connected via a direct common bus, typically provided by a Hub.
Packets are placed onto the bus via a broadcast to the bus, via a suitable NIC interface. Now if a machine has two cards on the same network, with the ame access rights, then you are trying to create a system whereby both interfaces are allowed to broadcast the same data. Now this will obviously cause a horrendous mess, as you can appreciate, both MAC's will recieve collisions, and resend data and all hell would break loose.
Windows doesn't bother addressing this issue, which although convenient on a small system, where daisy chaining is more appropriate that fast hub hardware.
anyway, your system:
ok, so once you've updated modules.conf run 'depmod' and then 'modprobe eth1'. Assuming you've configured the interface properly (meaning.. copy the existing ifcfg-eth0 file to ..eth1 and modify as needed) you should then be able to
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