Re: adding a second ethernet card
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 10:56:36PM -0400, Donna Lopolito wrote:
> I'm running slink. My eth0 is an ne2000 and works fine. I want to add a
> second ne2000. I've tried editing the lilo.conf file with: append="ether
> 12,0x300,eth1", then runing lilo and then rebooting but no luck. What is
> the process?
> thanks,
> -tom-
>
On a IP-Masquerading server I've got, I've also got two cards (different
brands, though). I believe that the easiest way to do this is
by compiling your network driver as a module. That way, you can
use modprobe (and later /etc/modutils/aliases) to specify configuration
options and unload/reload the driver while playing with settings
without rebooting. From the kernel docs for 2.2.10 (should apply to 2.0.36 tho):
The ne module is an exception to the above. A NE2000 is essentially an
8390 chip, some bus glue and some RAM. Because of this, the ne probe is
more invasive than the rest, and so at boot we make sure the ne probe is
done last of all the 8390 cards (so that it won't trip over other 8390 based
cards) With modules we can't ensure that all other non-ne 8390 cards have
already been found. Because of this, the ne module REQUIRES an "io=0xNNN"
argument passed in via insmod. It will refuse to autoprobe.
Hope this helps, as always, reply if you have questions/problems/et al
--
Stephen Pitts
smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
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