On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jason Hirsch wrote:
> I think I have an unique problem here. I have 2 Netgear EA201c ISA 10
> network cards that will not both work in my system at the same time.
>
> I say 'same time' because I can do the following:
>
> modprobe -a --debug --verbose ne io=0x300
> and a card is successfully recognized.
> modprobe -a --debug --verbose ne io=0x340
> fails (even tho the card is there)
You canNOT load two modules with the same name at the same time. You need
to give the kernel a unique module name for each one of them (it defaults
to the file name--in this case "ne").
Here's what I do to load 4 "ne" modules at the same time (I have put
these at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit). Note the "-o" option:
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/ne.o -o ne-0 io=0x300
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/ne.o -o ne-1 io=0x320
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/ne.o -o ne-2 io=0x340 irq=10
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/ne.o -o ne-3 io=0x360
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/ne.o -o ne-4 io=0x240
Note the 3rd one could not auto-detect its IRQ, and I had to pass it on as
a command line argument.
Once done, try /sbin/lsmod to see what's happened.
cheers,
Hossein
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