RE: oops, 2nd ethernet card question

["Steve Poling" <sdp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

is there another distinction to be made as to whether the driver is compiled
into the compiler or whether it is a separately loaded module. i did some
experiments and i found that on one machine, making the specified changes to
conf.modules worked, and on another machine it did not. i never got the syntax
to lilo.conf just right. i'll try your example code...

i think that one must first ask where one's ethernet driver is located and based
upon that answer, the next move is to edit conf.modules or lilo.conf.

of course, this supposition must be checked out.



>>can anybody give me a decent reading list of howtos that focus on the 2nd
>>ethernet card issue?
>
>THe exact syntax is as follows as described in the Ethernet-HOWTO:
>
>LILO: linux ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x280,eth1
>
>The first number is the IRQ the second is the I/O port and the third is the
>interface name.
>
>So a lilo.conf file would look like:
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>disk=/dev/sda
>  bios=0x80
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/zImage-Tape
>        label=linux-tape
>        root=/dev/sda1
>        read-only
>        append="ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x280,eth1"  <<<This is the
>important line to get it to do it every time you boot without having to type it
>on the LILO: prompt line.
>
>