On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote:

> The majority of the hardware was detected and setup during the
> installation process. I'm only having problems seting up both of the
> Network cards. The computer has one Data-Link DE-220 ISA and another
> Data-Link DE-250 ISA. ( NE 2000 Compatibles ) Both of these cards IRQ's
> and I/O's are configured through DOS (real mode) based software.
> 
> To configure the cards I created an MS-DOS boot disk that loaded the
> configuration software into a RAMDISK and then executed the program. The
> DE220 is configured to IRQ 11 and I/O 0x300 while the DE250 is
> configured to IRQ 10 and I/O 0x280. Now, I'm running into problems
> getting the kernel ( 2.2.15 ) to detect both network cards under the
> same module ( NE ). I edited the /etc/conf.modules as shown below:
> (thanks to the writers of the Linux-Ethernet-HOWTO)
> 
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0x300 irq=11
> options ne io=0x280 irq=10

options ne io=0x300,0x280 irq=11,10

I believe one of irq/io would be enough:

options ne io=0x300,0x280

should work

> 
> I can modprobe eth0 and get it working but I cannot get the second NIC
> (eth1) to berecognized by the kernel. How do you configure these
> arguments to recognize two NIC under the same module?? And do I have to
> pass the "ether" armument to the kernel at boot time to get both of
> these NICs working under the same module??

see the correct syntax above.

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Tzafrir Cohen
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