[H-GEN] Multi Network Cards...

[Gary Curtis]

Byron Ellacott wrote:
> 
> 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.

Further to my previous post about Daffy and its two NE2000 cards.

Here is Daffy's /etc/conf.modules

alias eth0 8390
alias eth1 8390
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne irq=5,11 io=0x300,0x260

You will [of course] have to use your own IRQs and Base Addrs.

Gaz
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