Multiple ethernet cards

[smwong@cse.cuhk.edu.hk]

Hi tulip'ers,

> 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.
> 
> 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
>           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
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 

Well, I don't know sharing interrupt between ISA & PCI will be a good idea.
You will get lots of trouble, from hardware perspective (triggering method,
chipset recognition, interrupt acknowledge), from driver code of two 
different Ethernet cards!  Try to relocate either interrupt, so that they 
are different.  I don't have a LinkSys personally, but I've configured
lots of machine in my working place with tulip Ethernet card (DEC chip)
and 3c509 coexist, and run happily for months.

My 2 cents,
Stephen.

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