On Tue, 15 May 2001, Bob Wilkinson wrote: > Also see http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html which tells us > > Only the IRQ and transceiver setting may be overridden when using > the driver as a module. Setting two cards to 10base2/IRQ10 and > AUI/IRQ11 is done by using the xcvr and irq module options: > > options 3c509 xcvr=3,3 irq=10,11 > > i.e. the option io *is not* available when the code is loaded as a > module - hence the error. You may have to play with the values for > xcvr - I think I got by with xcvr=3 irq=10 (but try xcvr=0 if this > doesn't work).
Ohhhh! So it *is* intentional. (I didn't need to do anything with xcvr to get it to work, and couldn't actually find out what this common parameter refers to on network cards..) thanks, ben taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.dhp.com/~mithras "If you buy a person a ticket, they'll see a movie that day. But if you show a person how to sneak in, they'll see movies for a lifetime." Mark Stanley, _Freefall_, http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/