On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Charles Stephen wrote > I have installed to ethernet adapter cards but only one is being detected. I > was able to gather some information on what should be done when you install > two or more ethernet cardsin the same machine from the fllowing site > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO-6.html Which indicates that if you > using two ne2000, one at 0x240, and one at 0x260. You should add the > following lines to the /etc/conf.modules file: > > Alias etho ne > Alias eth1 ne > Options ne io=0x240, 0x260 > > This does not seem to work, also when you go to the file in mention there is > a message saying that this file should not directly be altered, it then > refers you to another file namely modutils and ask you to read the manpage > for update-modules. after many attemps > at solving the problem I think I have reached a dead end this is the reason > for this mail. What should I do, keeping in mind that the cards are connected > to ISA slots >
If your system is reasonably recent (i.e., slink or later) you should add those lines to a file in /etc/modutils (say, "ne") and then run update-modules to produce a new /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf, depending on your modutils). This scheme makes it easier for scripts to play with your modules setup, without clobbering any changes you make. However you should also remove the space between the options, like so: Options ne io=0x240,0x260 and, as they are ne2000 cards in ISA slots, you may also have to add the IRQs like so: Options ne io=0x240,0x260 irq=10,11 (or whatever). Next time you install ne using modprobe it should find them both. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
