Re: two ethernet cards...........

["ramas" <ramas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This query about configuring two ethernet cards has become common on this
list now

First the question of passing lilo parameters is for the older kernels. (I
think with 2.0 oonwards the kernel has become modular ??)  The newer modular
kernels detect the cards and auto load the required modules...... there is
hardly a problem if any with that... the only question is whether you are
having IRQ conflicts.. esp. when you have 2 ethernet cards of the same type.
This is my understanding.. .please correct me if I am wrong...
you should try the following.. it has worked many times inthe past...

1. Turning of specific informaiton (manual)on IRQ in BIOS and set it to auto
... so that the IRQ conflicts are resolved automatically.. usu. this is the
case and you can see this even before LILO comes up...
2. Use ifconfig (still easier use linuxconf !!) with -n option to see the
total number of cards detected and ow many are active. Then use the ifconfig
/ linuxconf to associate the two ethernet cards with whatever addresses !!!
or whatever you would like to use them for....

HTH
- - ramas


- -----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Nambiar <suniln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 19 July 1999 14:38
Subject: Re: two ethernet cards...........


>hi,
>There r interfaces available in unix system which u can use to configure
and talk to ur interface cards. By default ur first card i believe is
initialised with interface eth0. U can check this by running
>ifconfig.
>Then u can configure ur card by running netconf. Select ur new interface as
eth0. Give the corrent module for ur card and that's it.
>SunilN
>
>
>Manoj wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I want to install a second ethernet card (Compex RL2000-PCI ) on my RH
5.2 ( kernel 2.0.36)  box. Can somebody tell me what i should do for the
kernel to recognize both the cards at boot time itself .
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Manoj
>>
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