Re: [IPCop-user] Installing 4 ISA NE2000 Clone NICs

[Jon R. <jr...@al...>]

>From: David Taylor <dav...@pa...>

[snip]

> > work.  All NICs function, and any combination of three of the four
> > NICs will install: (1, 2, 3), (1, 2, 4), (1, 3, 4), & (2, 3, 4).
> >
> > Any chance of fixing this snag in a near-future release?

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>So you have enough IRQs etc?  Disable Com ports and LPT ports in BIOS if you
>don't use them to free up a few more IRQs to see.  When you say all 4 work,
>do you mean all 4 work, at the same time, with some other OS? Have you EVER
>had all 4 going on this box at the same time before?  I suspect you are
>running out of resources to assign to the cards.

Thanks for your suggestions.  I don't think the problem is related to 
system resources.  As stated in my original post:

>The cursor hits the end of the input field and stops before all the 
>necessary information is entered.

In other words, the install program won't let me type in enough 
characters to enter data for all four NICs.  (And unless the program 
is psychic, I don't see how it can know what I'm going to type and 
refuse to let me enter it.)

Again, IPCop installs successfully with any combination of three of 
the four NICs.

FTR, all NICs are jumpered, and there are no resource conflicts with 
the BIOS or between the cards.  I sorted that out before I isolated 
the install program limitation.

--
Jon