Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: Two 3COM Etherlink III netcards in one box | Date | Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:04:43 +1000 (EST) |
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> it's been converted to a number. A lot of the ethercard modules don't > support multiple instantiation yet. I don't know offhand if 3c509 does. > > phil >
With v2.0, the answer is no. If you look at patch 2.1.14, somebody added multiple card per single insmod support based upon cloning what I did for the NE2000 driver (the comment in 3c509.c is a dead give-away ;-)
#define MAX_3C_CARDS 4 /* Max number of NE cards per module */
Hehe. Anyway, I'd just grab a 2.1.x (x>13) driver and drop it into v2.0 if you want multiple 3c509 cards used with modules. I believe there still may be an unresolved issue with respect to supplying i/o addresses and the way in which the cards respond to the ID port during the probe. This may mainest itself as things not getting detected when you supply "io=0xNNN,0xMMM" but working fine when you do "io=0xMMM,0xNNN" so do watch out for that. IMHO it is just easier to compile the driver into the kernel and boot with "ether=0,0,eth1". Then the above problem becomes a non-issue.
Paul.
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