[realtek] d-link df3530tx resource busy

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:

> I too am having problems with the dlink DFE-538TX in a 3 card
> configuration. Two of my cards are also ISA (3com 509Bs) and the
> D-Link will not play nicely with them either. I don't know if its an
> ISA/PCI problem or a Dlink/rest-of-world problem or really if this is
> the problem at all. It could be plug and pray. But...

What, specifically, is the problem that you are having?

> Roderick Smith, (Linux: networking for your Office, Sams 1999) seems
> to think this is a general problem with linux.

There is no general problem with multiple cards or drivers in Linux.

> He suggests recompiling
> the kernel, putting some drivers in the kernel, compiling some as
> modules, switching cards around, putting all drivers in the kernel, or
> all as modules.

This is pure superstition, or perhaps not reading the documentation on
the syntax to specify multiple base I/O addresses for ISA cards.


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