On Friday 04 May 2001 08:43 pm, RTS wrote:
> I have RH 6.2 installed with 3 3com 905C cards (Tornado). I have the 3c90x
> (tornado) drivers compiled into the kernel. I have the cards setup this
> way:
This might give you a place to start, at any rate.
Have a look here:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3
>From that page:
With the Driver Compiled into the Kernel: If you have the driver compiled
into the kernel, then the hooks for multiple ethercards are all there.
However, note that at the moment only one ethercard is auto-probed for by
default. This helps to avoid possible boot time hangs caused by probing
sensitive cards.
(Note: As of late 2.1.x kernels, the boot probes have been sorted into safe
and unsafe, so that all safe (e.g. PCI and EISA) probes will find all related
cards automatically. Systems with more than one ethernet card with at least
one of them being an ISA card will still need to do one of the following.)
There are two ways that you can enable auto-probing for the second (and
third, and...) card. The easiest method is to pass boot-time arguments to the
kernel, which is usually done by LILO. Probing for the second card can be
achieved by using a boot-time argument as simple as ether=0,0,eth1. In this
case eth0 and eth1 will be assigned in the order that the cards are found at
boot. Say if you want the card at 0x300 to be eth0 and the card at 0x280 to
be eth1 then you could use
LILO: linux ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x280,eth1
The ether= command accepts more than the IRQ + I/O + name shown above. Please
have a look at Passing Ethernet Arguments... for the full syntax, card
specific parameters, and LILO tips.
These boot time arguments can be made permanent so that you don't have to
re-enter them every time. See the LILO configuration option `append' in the
LILO manual.
The second way (not recommended) is to edit the file Space.c and replace the
0xffe0 entry for the I/O address with a zero. The 0xffe0 entry tells it not
to probe for that device -- replacing it with a zero will enable autoprobing
for that device.
-D
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