Hi,
I am resending this again in hopes someone can help me.
I have an interesting problem that I hope someone can help me with. I
took my old 486/100 added ram so that it has 64MB and set it up to be a
scsi based system. I took an adaptec 2940 and connected a seagate 1.0 gb
drive to it, as well as a scsi cdrom. I added 2 3Com 3c509b NIC's to the
system and set them up so that one is irq=10,io=300 and the other is irq=5,
io=210. The host adaptor is set for irq=11. I cleaned the drive and did a
fresh install of the 2.0.32 kernel (cheapbytes redhat cd) and all looks
fine at this point. Both NICs are activated at boot time, and I can access
both the private network and the internet (2nd NIC connected to a cable
modem). At this point, I want to setup ip forwarding/masq'ing so that the
computers on my private net can see the world. No Problem, I follow the
FAQ on kernel building/compiling and on IP-masq'ing. I turned on the
suggested options and kept the ones I thought I required. After building
the kernel and installing it (changing lilo.conf, copying it to /boot, etc)
I rebooted the system, selected the new kernel at the lilo prompt and
watched linux ignore the 2nd NIC (the one on irq=5,io=210). Being somewhat
perplexed, I rebooted again, and selected the original kernel and saw it
recognize the NIC's and work just fine. Hmmm. I rebooted again and
selected the new kernel again, and like last time, got only the one NIC
(the message states that the system is delaying eth1 initialization). I
tried adding the append="ether=5,0x210,eth1" line to lilo.conf but it just
ignored it (same message). Can anybody tell me what is going on? The only
thing that I noticed was the order in which things happen in the kernels is
different. In the original kernel it appears the NICS are started first
before the scsi, and it appears to be vice-versa on the new kernel. Please
Help.
Pete
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