Multiple Quad Ethernet Cards in one PC?

Don Bowman don at sandvine.com
Wed Jul 23 08:53:52 PDT 2003


From: Simon Gray [mailto:simong at desktop-guardian.com]
> > I put three D-Link DFE-580TX Quad Ethernet NICs in a PC
> > with FreeBSD 4.7.
> >
> > Only ste0 through ste7 (i.e. the first two cards) are being
> > recognized.
> >
> > Any idea why I don´t see the ports of the third one?
> 
> Only things I could think of could be: IRQ problems? faulty 
> card? limitation
> of the driver?

i would guess that perhaps the BIOS doesn't set up that
many PCI-PCI bridges.

does it show in pciconf -l?



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