Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: : I am having trouble autoprobing more than one Ethernet card at boot : time. I have compiled support for the cards I am using (they are both : of the same type) but only one is detected at boot time. I found a : howto that describes a method that involves adding the line : ether=0,0,eth1 to my lilo.conf file but I continuosly get syntax : errors when doing this and I cant figure out where in the lilo.conf file : to put this line... Any help would be appreciated. : : Thanks in advance : Rob Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the information on the append line, like this: append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which interface is which, don't you? I hope this helps. By the way, my two cards are 3C509B's. If you have two or more 3com cards of the same type (and perhaps if you have two or more cards of the same type of any brand, I don't know), they are always sorted by ethernet address, so the one with the lowest ethernet address always has the lowest ethX number. I know of a guy that had one NE2000 clone and three 3c509 cards. His setup was: eth0 : NE2000 eth1 : 3c509 with lowest ethernet address eth2 : 3c509 eth3 : 3c509 with highest ethernet address He could get the NE2000 at eth3 and the 3c509's at eth0 to eth2, but he couldn't change the relative order of the 3c509's. So, unless you have different network cards, you don't need to specify the actual irq and io parameters. If anyone has an example that proves me wrong, please respond. I am not claiming to be an expert on this. Remco -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards
Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the information on the append line, like this: append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which interface is which, don't you? I hope this helps. By the way, my two cards are 3C509B's. How do you know which card is going to end up getting which values is it in the system bios? How do you know exactly what the values arelucky guess? I'm using two 3c905's with the latest patch to 3c59x.c from D. Becker inserted into the kernel sources before compiling a custom kernel. What I was planning to do was the old empiric method...if: 1--A and 2--B doesn't work, why then I'll just connect 1--B and 2--A !!! I figure the things are going to get assigned at boot the same way each time. But I would like to know how to do things the Right Way. Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: : Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the : information on the append line, like this: : : append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 : : I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables : autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which interface is : which, don't you? : : I hope this helps. By the way, my two cards are 3C509B's. : : How do you know which card is going to end up getting which values is it : in the system bios? Well, because I've set them to non-plug-and-play mode and manually chosen irq and io port values, as any sane user would :) : How do you know exactly what the values arelucky guess? Nope - evil technology - DOS!! Boot to a DOS disk and run 3Com's config utility. It's on their website. : I'm using two 3c905's with the latest patch to 3c59x.c from D. Becker : inserted into the kernel sources before compiling a custom kernel.. : : What I was planning to do was the old empiric method...if: Well, by all means head on over to the website and get the driver disk for the Boomerang. There's a 3c905 config utility, tells you the MAC address and the whole works. Much easier than the empiric method. : 1--A and 2--B doesn't work, why then I'll just connect : 1--B and 2--A !!! : : I figure the things are going to get assigned at boot the same way each : time. But I would like to know how to do things the Right Way. : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
loading support for 2 ethernet cards
I am having trouble autoprobing more than one Ethernet card at boot time. I have compiled support for the cards I am using (they are both of the same type) but only one is detected at boot time. I found a howto that describes a method that involves adding the line ether=0,0,eth1 to my lilo.conf file but I continuosly get syntax errors when doing this and I cant figure out where in the lilo.conf file to put this line... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: : I am having trouble autoprobing more than one Ethernet card at boot : time. I have compiled support for the cards I am using (they are both : of the same type) but only one is detected at boot time. I found a : howto that describes a method that involves adding the line : ether=0,0,eth1 to my lilo.conf file but I continuosly get syntax : errors when doing this and I cant figure out where in the lilo.conf file : to put this line... Any help would be appreciated. : : Thanks in advance : Rob Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the information on the append line, like this: append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which interface is which, don't you? I hope this helps. By the way, my two cards are 3C509B's. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
