On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> You shouldn't need to change modules.conf. All you need to do is put an
> append statement in your /etc/lilo.conf file to assign the module, irq,
> and I/O to eth0 or eth1.
That's going about it the hard way. The whole point of modules is that you
can load and unload them after system boot, and reconfigure them at will.
Rather then fscking around with the boot loader and rebooting until you get it
right, if you just change the module configuration you can simply do a:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
and the configuration change will happen automatically.
Anything that is loading as a module should not be specified in the boot
loader. Doing so defeats half the purpose of loadable modules. :-)
> However, I have had trouble in the past using a 3c905 pci card where it
> ALWAYS wants to be eth0 no matter what you do. This is because it is a
> pci card, and the pci probe at boot time finds it and makes it the 1st nic
> reguardless of what you tell it.
I haven't tried it, but if you load the other NIC driver first, it should
get eth0, then you load the 3C905 driver, and it cannot take eth0, so it would
get eth1. No?
I'll try and find out for sure later today; the SLUG Linux Lab @ NHCTC has a
system that matches this configuration pretty closely.
--
Ben Scott
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