[TriLUG] network cards

[Ken Mink]

Mark,
I have a dual homed machine with heterogenious NICs as well. The
solution I found is to use a modular kernel with the card's drivers as
modules. Then add two lines to your modules.conf:
alias eth0 pcnet32
alias eth1 eepro100

Now when you reference eth0, the kernel will use the pcnet32 driver and
find a pcnet32 card to attach it to. This works for me.

Ken

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 08:00, Mark wrote:
> I am having a bizzare problem - I have a netfinity-5100 with dual nic's 
> - It has an on board (eth0) pcnet32 --- the second is in pci slot 1 
> (eepro100) (eth1) ...  When the system boots up, eth0 expects, eepro100 
> and eth1 exepect pcnet32 - so I bring it up in Single user mode, change 
> the drivers and do an init 5 (all is well) -- if i try to reboot, then I 
> start all over.  Has anyone any idea why the devices/software switch 
> positions? Could it be the bios?
> 
> tia,
> mark
> 
> 
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