Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:36:17 +0800
From: Robert Sweet
OK Folks, one more time.......
I don't need any help getting my servers up with 2 nic's. Do it all the time. I use 3c905B's only. They work great. My questions is why some users have to edit lilo.conf and add the append line when I never had to do this ?
/Dee
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add a line like this to lilo.conf:
append="eth0=0xXXX,eth0 eth1=0xXXX,eth1"
Replace XXX with hardware address found in /proc/pci or look in dmesg. Hope this helps :) -- rsweet@socal.rr.com | If you can't learn to do it -o) | well, learn to enjoy doing it Linux, the Choice /\ | badly. of a GNU generation _\_v | |
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-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq With the Driver Compiled into the Kernel: If you have the driver compiled into the kernel, then the hooks for multiple ethercards are all there. However, note that at the moment only one ethercard is auto-probed for by default. This helps to avoid possible boot time hangs caused by probing sensitive cards.
(Note: As of late 2.1.x kernels, the boot probes have been sorted into safe and unsafe, so that all safe (e.g. PCI and EISA) probes will find all related cards automatically. Systems with more than one ethernet card with at least one of them being an ISA card will still need to do one of the following.) <p> There are two ways that you can enable auto-probing for the second (and third, and...) card. The easiest method is to pass boot-time arguments to the kernel, which is usually done by LILO. Probing for the second card can be achieved by using a boot-time argument as simple as ether=0,0,eth1. In this case eth0 and eth1 will be assigned in the order that the cards are found at boot. Say if you want the card at 0x300 to be eth0 and the card at 0x280 to be eth1 then you could use <p> LILO: linux ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x280,eth1 <p> The ether= command accepts more than the IRQ + I/O + name shown above. Please have a look at ``Passing Ethernet Arguments...'' for the full syntax, card specific parameters, and LILO tips. These boot time arguments can be made permanent so that you don't have to re-enter them every time. See the LILO configuration option `append' in the LILO manual. <p>Taken from the Ethernet-HOWTO. -- rsweet@socal.rr.com | Renning's Maxim: Man is the -o) | highest animal. Man does the Linux, the Choice /\ | classifying. of a GNU generation _\_v | |