Mat, This may be a shot in the dark, but check further up the rc.config under PCMCIA section, and see if you have duplicate ifconfig lines. On 6.4, I ran into this problem when I used yast2 to install the cards. It placed bogus ifconfig commands under the pcmcia driver section, even though I have no pcmcia. This hosed things up similarly to your description. ROn --- Mat <Mat@riverstreams.com> wrote:

hello

i have a ICL 486/66mhz with 32mb ram that i would like to install as my router/firewall with a DMZ, in the motherboard i have four ISA slots,

ISA slot 1 eth16i irq=9 io=2a0 ISA slot 2 cdrom irq=5 io=300 ISA slot 3 3c509b irq=10 io=310 ISA slot 4 3c509b irq=11 io=320

so as you can see i do not seem to have any IRQ or IO conflicts in between nor with the rest of the system, now when i installed all the cards and loaded them through yast, the system just is not able to detect the cards!, as i read the suse manuals i found out that for the 3COM cards its recommended to double the paramters in the modules.conf file and so i did

option 3x509 irq=10,11 io=310,320

after i did that and i restarted the network it found all three network cards and assigned the appropriate IP addresses,

BUT...

after i rebooted the system, it began to messup so that first it loaded the wrong gateways and masks for the different IP interfaces resulting in one interface having an ip address and then the second interface would have the the mask and gateway!! i checked in rc.config that the configurations are correct and so they were but still i was getting these results,

i then looked into the different configuration files (modules.conf & rc.config) and tried to cahnge the configurations but in vain, after a couple of reboots, at bootup i begun to get error messages that there is an ioaddress error and due to that it couldnt load the modules for the network cards, i checked the IRQ, and the IO addresses and they are correct and there arent any duplicates,

so i thought maybe my hardware was dead so i transffered the cards and the harddrive to an similar box with the same configurations but i still experienced the same things

so now i ask the gurus out there if anyone out there could give me a hint on where things are goin wrong so i can setup my systems,

awaitting for some assistance regards Mat

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