Multiple ethernet cards

David R. Kohel kohel@math.nus.edu.sg
Sun Oct 18 07:27:45 1998


I'm trying to get both a 3Com (ISA) and LinkSys (PCI) card working.  
Thanks to the previous responses, I upgraded to v0.89 of tulip.c
and have the LinkSys card working.  Each card works independently 
but the 3Com card is inactive with the LinkSys card inserted.

>From dmesg:

tulip.c:v0.89K 8/8/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xe800, 00 a0 cc 24 33 86, IRQ 10.
eth0: Checking for MII transceivers...
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3100 status 7829.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
eth1: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address  00 a0 24 2f 1c 5d, IRQ 10.
3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
.
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eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 2678016, CSR6 816e2002.
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.

Ethernet entries from "ifconfig -a":

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:24:33:86  
          inet addr:137.132.75.154  Bcast:137.132.75.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:2F:1C:5D  
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 

Since grabbing the latest tulip.c driver sufficed to get the LinkSys 
card working I tried the latest 3c509.c.  Now dmesg reports the 
following information on the card and driver:

 3c509 activated at 0x000 tag 1, 10baseT port, address eth1: 3c509 at
0x300, 10baseT port, address  00 a0 24 2f 1c 5d, IRQ 10.
3c509.c:1.17 2/27/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

But still no network access:

archimedes# ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

--David