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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:10:02 +0200
From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@tac.ch>
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Subject: Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)
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> This was a special case, which btw had nothing to do with the starfire
> driver itself. The user needed to support more than 8 eth ports, which
> 2.2 complains about, and more than 16 eth ports, which 2.2 simply doesn't
> allow without further changes.

I made the changes and I was able to load 4 quadboards, 2 3com cards and
1 eepro100 (onboard) and I did some tests and it works fine. However the
starfire driver seems not to initialize more then 4 quadboards. I put in
5 and he doesn't initialize it and the others don't work although they
get initialized. Is there a trivial way to get more then 4 NIC's of the
same manufacturer running in one box. I also start believing that this
is a motherboard problem since when I put in more the 4 3Com cards, the
boot freezes after the SCSI BIOS init and before the lilo. Does anybody
have the same problem?

Roberto Nibali, ratz

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