2 pcmcia ethernet cards?
Hi,
I have two pcmcia ethernet cards which do work. I am running them as a
firewall and would like to have a bit tighter control about how and when
they load.
Will specifying their i/o, irq parameters in lilo.conf let me specify
which one is which.... as seems to be indiccated in the following tip?
Note: These are PCMCIA cards, and thus not visible to the kernel till
after cardmgr is running.
<snip>
--Detecting 2 ethernet cards--
To configure an ethernet card in Linux, you need to enable it
in the kernel. Then the kernel will detect your ethernet card
if it is at a common IO port. But it will stop there, and
will never check if you have 2 ethernet cards.
The trick is to tell the ethernet driver that there are 2
cards in the system. The following line will tell the kernel
that there is an ethernet card at IRQ 10 and IO 0x300, and
another one at IRQ 9 and IO 0x340:
ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=9,0x340,eth1
You can add that line on bootup at the "boot:" prompt, or in
the /etc/lilo.conf file. Don't forget to run:
lilo
That will reload the lilo.conf file and enable changes.
</snip>
aloha,
dave
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