Rebooting problems

Thu, 02 Jan 2003 05:24:07 -0800 (PST)

The contents of this file may be irrelevant after you "get my box up and 
running."  What IRQ and IO port do your NIC's occupy after you configure 
them?  (ifconfig will tell you.)  Those are the values you should put 
in /etc/modules.conf, if at all.  I haven't put IRQ's and IO addresses in that 
file in over three years - I let modprobe figure it out for me.  Hard coding 
values in /etc/modules.conf can really mess you up if you move cards around in 
your box.

What steps do you take to get the box configured correctly?

And to answer your repeated question, no, this is not how Linux is supposed to 
work.  This behavior means you have a misconfiguration.

George

Quoting Cliff Rogers <crogers@cox.net>:

> Here is my modules.conf file:
> 
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> 
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 8139too
> options 8139too irq=11,3 io=0xcc00, 0xe800
> 
> This is what it is after I get my box up and running. I Know that the
> parport line is for the printer and I know that the alias lines are so
> that
> I can use the same driver on both cards because they are identical
> cards.
> The options line assigns the driver, IRQ, and I/O addresses to eth0 and
> eth1
> respectively. At least that is what I understand this all to mean.
> This is all saved in the modules.conf file but when I shutdown and
> then
> reboot it will come up with the option line assigning the same IRQ and
> I/O
> address to both cards. Also my NIC's are not side by side but they have
> at
> least one slot between them. Everything works fine until I power down.
> Thanks again for any and all the help. Cliff
> 
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