Linux-Hams archive - October 1998: RE: many netboards?

RE: many netboards?

Mark Phillips (ghl.pltinyaxxj@fjokk.hu)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 05:46:01 +0100


You have to go modular with at least one of the boards as the kernel will
stoipp looking for boards when it finds the first one.

Hope that helps

Mark Phillips, G7LTT
PhilCom Mobile
0800 358 2674
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hquwsa@tkmaxx.com
> [mailto:yblbzozk.baonlc@grecon.de]On Behalf Of Tim Connolly
> Sent: 05 October 1998 04:36
> To: Mark Phillips
> Cc: Pirulo Gomez; lgnxext@urbanet.ch
> Subject: Re: many netboards?
>
>
> Hey Mark, why would you choose to go modular with this?
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > Dead easy this one.
> >
> > install the second card then recompile the kernel to load up
> the 2 cards as
> > modules. If they are different cards then its easy to work out
> an order to
> > which they will be loaded and used but if they are the same
> then you should
> > make the command line say something specific eg.
> >
> > modprobe ne io=0x300 this would be card number 1 (eth0)
> > modprobe ne io=0x280 this would be card number 2 (eth1)
> >
> > then just fill in your rc.inet1 file as normal
> >
> > Mark Phillips
> > PhilCom Mobile
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> > http://come.to/philcom
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ktw.owahjgwobx@hbs.edu
> > > [mailto:terhi.victor@logonet.com]On Behalf Of Pirulo Gomez
> > > Sent: 01 October 1998 17:20
> > > To: xuhsu@mail.dy.fi
> > > Subject: many netboards?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi:
> > > I want to know how install more than one ethernet board into a Linux
> > > whith RedHat and kernel 2,0,35
> > >
> > >
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