Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:17:20 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: How to choose between ip 2 identical ethernet cards |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:29:29 -0700 don fisher <dfisher@as.arizona.edu> wrote:
| Sorry for a bit off topic. | | I have a Dell 8200 laptop and a docking station, both with 3c905C | ethenet chips. I wish to use the 3c905c internal to the docking | station when the system is docked. Otherwise the 3c905c internal to | the 8200. In my office I would like to run with both eth0 and eth1, | but I need to be able to connect the correct interface to the correct | cable. The same module is loaded for both devices. | | The HOWTOs I found all assumed you had old cards with fixed addresses. | These could be specified as options in modules.conf. From the Net-HOWTO: | alias eth0 ne | alias eth1 ne | alias eth2 ne | options ne io=0x220,0x240,0x300 | But this does not seem to apply to the 3c59x driver. modinfo doesn't | even list "io" as a valid option. | | I did find: | 1) in /proc/ioports, one of the devices is listed with "(#2)" after it. | 2) in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, one of the devices has | subDeviceId = 00d4, the other 00de. | | I have tried changing the order of loading modules, along with a few | vain attempts in modules.conf. For info, this is a Redhat system. | Where is the definition as to which device will be associated with | eth0 made? | | Any assistance would be appreciated. I did try to RTFM, I just can't | find the correct "fine manual";-) | thanks | don
I did a mini-howto for 'nameif'. URL is below. Maybe it can help you.
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt
-- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:29:29 -0700 don fisher <dfisher@as.arizona.edu> wrote:
| Sorry for a bit off topic. | | I have a Dell 8200 laptop and a docking station, both with 3c905C | ethenet chips. I wish to use the 3c905c internal to the docking | station when the system is docked. Otherwise the 3c905c internal to | the 8200. In my office I would like to run with both eth0 and eth1, | but I need to be able to connect the correct interface to the correct | cable. The same module is loaded for both devices. | | The HOWTOs I found all assumed you had old cards with fixed addresses. | These could be specified as options in modules.conf. From the Net-HOWTO: | alias eth0 ne | alias eth1 ne | alias eth2 ne | options ne io=0x220,0x240,0x300 | But this does not seem to apply to the 3c59x driver. modinfo doesn't | even list "io" as a valid option. | | I did find: | 1) in /proc/ioports, one of the devices is listed with "(#2)" after it. | 2) in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, one of the devices has | subDeviceId = 00d4, the other 00de. | | I have tried changing the order of loading modules, along with a few | vain attempts in modules.conf. For info, this is a Redhat system. | Where is the definition as to which device will be associated with | eth0 made? | | Any assistance would be appreciated. I did try to RTFM, I just can't | find the correct "fine manual";-) | thanks | don
I did a mini-howto for 'nameif'. URL is below. Maybe it can help you.
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt
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