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

Re: many netboards?

Tim Connolly (gfko.wvyyyvsjzf@sas.be)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 07:47:42 -0400


Ah, I see! Never ran into any situation where I needed modules, so I was just
curious. Thanks- Tim

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.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Mark Phillips, G7LTT
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bipquf.bxvpi@internetia.opole.pl
> > [mailto:pet.alktqvvu@kanazawa-u.ac.jp]On Behalf Of Tim Connolly
> > Sent: 05 October 1998 04:36
> > To: Mark Phillips
> > Cc: Pirulo Gomez; fswar@weststartv.com
> > 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
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> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: oqqn@ujep.cz
> > > > [mailto:terhi.victor@logonet.com]On Behalf Of Pirulo Gomez
> > > > Sent: 01 October 1998 17:20
> > > > To: gwevt@tak.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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