[H-GEN] Multi Network Cards...

[Byron Ellacott]

On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Robert Brockway wrote:

> > the /etc/ lilo.conf I have the following: append = "ether=0,0,eth1"
> This forces an autoprobe.  This is fine for finding it, but once you
current kernel releases of ne.c do not autoprobe anymore - apparently it
was causing problems with some other hardware.  You need only supply the
base IO port, however, as the modules all use a nifty trick for finding
which IRQ is triggered when they yell something at the card.

I have (well, had) two network cards in my machine for a while.. they were
different types of cards, however..

The way I got it working was to edit /etc/conf.modules and add
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 wd

options ne io=0x6100
options wd io=0x280

Obviously this falls down when you have them both as ne .. as fuzzy said,
you probably can't use modules if the cards are of the same type.  Your
ether= line would require the patches that Robert (and possibly others)
have suggested.

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