Did you compile in PS/2 mouse support into the 2.2.17 kernel? That would
eat up IRQ 12 .... and cause Eth2 to be unseen.
- rick warner
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, David Ruggiero wrote:
> I just added a third ethernet card to my firewall machine in preparation
> for setting up a web server/DMZ subnet.
>
> This new card is identical to the other two already in the machine which
> are both working (fwiw, they're all ISA NE2000 clones, hard-configured to
> non-overlapping IRQs and io addresses). I've identified them to lilo.conf
> _and_ in modules.conf, and done a lilo -v.
>
> When I boot with the stock RH 6.2 kernel v2.2.16, all three interfaces are
> recognized, initialized, and run fine (and catting /proc/interrupts and
> /proc/ioaddresses confirms the cards' IRQ/IO address parameters given below
> are correct).
>
> But when I boot with my home-built "minimal" v2.2.17 kernel, only eth0 and
> eth1 are even seen (they work fine). eth2 isn't initialized or even probed,
> as far as I can tell.
>
> What could be missing from my kernel or init files that's causing this
> behavior? (Remember, these are literally identical cards from the same
> manufacturer.)
>
> One possible clue: since I built ne2k support directly into my 2.2.17
> kernel, it uses only the lilo.conf "append" commands to configure the NICs
> - in contrast, the 2.2.16 kernel, with loadable module support, uses
> modules.conf for that purpose. But everything below looks good with both
> files, so....?
>
> TIA for any (informed) speculation. Newbies replying with copies of man
> pages will be cheerfully ignored. :)
>
> /David/
>
> in /etc/lilo.conf:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17jdr
> label=linux.2.2.17jdr
> read-only
> append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x320,eth1 ether=12,0x340,eth2"
> root=/dev/hda3
>
>
> in /etc/modules.conf:
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> alias eth2 ne
> options ne io=0x300,0x320,0x340 irq=10,11,12
>
>
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