oh yeah i forgot... for certain cards the settings are hardwired eg 3c509 u
need a diagnistics software to change the settings. hope this helps...
alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/14/99 09:06:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Boot hang with 2 eth cards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> alan/paul,
> if u plan to use the multiple nics do this:
>
> edit ur conf.modules
> add alias eth0 <nic module>
> add alias eth1 <nic modules>
> add options <nic module> irq=x,y io=a,b --> this line is for if u have
to
> similar cards and uneed to separate out the irq/io.
>
> in factt u can pass these arguments to lilo
>
> lilo: linux ether=<irq #>, <io #>, eth0 ether=<irq #>, <io #>, eth1
>
Appreciate it, but been there, done that.. It's in the how-to.. This is
the exact step that locked up
the machine.. After this, I had to boot into linux single and run
linuxconf to disable eth1.
:)
Alan
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