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

Re: many netboards?

Hamish Moffatt (psnlzya.xgieodvs@roskapostia.tunk.net)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:50:33 +1000

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:46:01AM +0100, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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.

Not if you tell it to look for more. On the kernel command line (usually
the LILO prompt), you can do

ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1

to probe for two ethernet cards. You can specify the hardware details
there instead of probing too (recommended for NE2000 cards). This
is detailed in the BootPrompt HOWTO.

Hamish

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