>>FYI, my firewall system has a 3c509 talking to my cable modem
>>and an 8013 serving my internal network. I compile both drivers
>>into the kernel statically (as opposed to using modules) and
>>the only way I can force the kernel to recognize the cards
>>in the desired order with the desired IO/IRQ parameters is to
>>tell LILO to start the kernel with this command line:
>>
>> append="ether=0xa,0x300,eth0 ether=0xf,0x340,eth1"
>>
>
>If you're using modules you can force the order for two
>different ethernet cards like I have below. I'm using a 3Com
>and a Netgear card and wanted them in a specific order for my
>home firewall. Here's the file and lines I added. Note that
>the "3c509" and "tulip" are module names. You can get those
>names with a "/sbin/lsmod" command once the cards are working.
>
>file: "/etc/modules.conf"
>
>alias eth0 3c509
>alias eth1 tulip
Yes, I believe I tried that approach and that it probably
should be regarded as the preferred method, but in my case
(stale memories here) it seems that I recall the kernel
wedging up while trying to probe for my cards. I stopped
working on the problem when I discovered that I could lead
each driver by the nose to its card in the manner described
without causing other troubles. Now that we're talking
about it, I think you can similarly specify parameters to
the loadable modules...
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