2 NICs?

Shawn T. Rutledge ecloud@bigfoot.com
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:54:59 -0700


example taken from my own lilo.conf...

append="ether=9,0x350,eth0 ether=5,0x300,eth1"

I don't know about BSD.

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:47:25PM -0700, Chris Jensen wrote:
> I'm trying to configure a second NIC on my Slack and OpenBSD box (one
> box, two drives). The rt8139 drivers for my PCI, D-link DFE-530TX+(s)
> are compiled into the 2.4.0 kernel. I've been reading the
> ethernet-HOWTO and got the part about adding "ether=IRQ,BASE_ADDR,NAME"
> to lilo.conf and running lilo, but I get syntax errors on the line I
> added. Does anyone know the correct syntax? I've tried it in the middle
> and the end of lilo.conf and I've tried it as: "ether=0,0,eth1" and
> "linux ether=0,0,eth1" (without the quotes, of course), but neither
> gets past the syntax error. Also, does anyone know how to determine the
> BASE_ADDR of a NIC? I've tried: "cat /proc/pci" and "lspci -v" to list
> device and both cards show up on different IRQs and naming variations
> so I know that it's seeing both cards, but no BASE_ADDR as I'm familiar
> with them (0xNNN). I'm trying this first in Slack since it's so similar
> to BSD, but if there's an entirely different method for BSD, then I'd
> appreciate if someone would let me know that as well. Thanks.

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