Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin
>
> I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards
> booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the
> command line should be:
>
> "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro"
>
> eth0 is fine but I don't get eth1 at all. There isn't even a reference to it
> in /var/log/messages. Where did I go wrong?
>
The 3c509 card probe is a little strange and only works if you list
them in the order of their ethernet MAC addresses. If you just
said ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 it would find them both, but
the eth0/eth1 names would refer to the wrong cards.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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