eepro (82595) question

I have two 82595FX Ethernet ISA cards. I can load eepro module with autodetect=1, irq and io are detected correctly, then I can ifconfig eth0 up, but card no works at all (I can ping it, but can't ping something else). I tried that card in Win98 - works with "Intel 82595" driver. So I downloaded "e10disk.exe" with DOS utils. With softset2.exe I changed irq to 10 and io to 0x300. I booted Linux-2.2.19 and loaded eepro, detected again, and now it works! But I need to put two cards in one system, so I must find another working irq/io. My question is why it doesn't work with many irq/io settings? I tried 5 times. Only irq=10, io=0x300 works correctly (on 3 different computers). Of course I checked /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports for conflicts. Is it possible that driver is broken? I searched groups.google.com and found few posts from people with similiar problem, maybe they couldn't find correct softset2.exe and correct irq/io settings?

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eepro.c is broken in 2.2.19 (and for a while before that).

A minor update went into 2.2.20.

Major updates are in the works now (e.g. see 2.2.21-pre2).

As for the 2.2.19/2.2.20 version, if you want it to recognise more that one card then apply this simple fix to init_module():

                d->mem_end      = mem[n_eepro];
                d->base_addr    = io[0];
                d->irq          = irq[n_eepro];
                d->init         = eepro_probe;

Change the [0] to [n_eepro] in the second line. But this version is still unstable under load!

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2.2.19 and 2.2.20 drivers are broken. check for 0.13 version of driver
(http://cathedrallabs.org/~aris/patches/)

aris