Re: Two NICs

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:29:23AM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
   > 
   > From Net-HOWTO:
   > 6.3.1. If your driver is a module (Normal with newer distros)
   > The module will typically can detect all of the installed cards.
   > Information from the detection is stored in the file:
   > 
   > /etc/conf.modules.
   > 
   > Consider that a user has 3 NE2000 cards, one at 0x300 one at 0x240, and one
   > at 0x220. You would add the following lines to the /etc/conf.modules
   > file:
   > 
   >         alias eth0 ne
   >         alias eth1 ne
   >         alias eth2 ne
   >                                                            
   >         options ne io=0x220,0x240,0x300
   > 
   > What this does is tell the program modprobe to look for 3 NE based cards at
   > the following addresses. It also states in which order they should be found
   > and the device they should be assigned.     
   > 
Fine. But, my cards are pci and I do not pass on the addresses as
parameters. Or can/should I pass them to modprobe?

Regards,

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