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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by Simon Morg » Fri, 30 May 1997 04:00:00



I have 3 D-Link DE-220P network cards installed in 486DX/66 running
RedHat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel.
One of the network cards is detected properly and runs fine with the
NE2000 compatible driver. I've read the  mini HowTo on using multiple
ethercards, but after following the instructions I still can't get
Linux to detect my other two cards.

I've tried the following line in the lilo.conf file:

        append="ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2"

And also

linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2

from the LILO prompt.

I've disabled the plug-and-play features within each card and have
manually configured them to specific IRQ and port numbers.

Are there additional steps required that the mini HowTo doesn't
mention? I've played around with the conf.modules file but this only
seems to have the effect of picking up a different card as my main
card.

Help please!

 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by William R. Matti » Fri, 30 May 1997 04:00:00


This is really not that much of an issue and there are two routes you
can take to get there. 1st approach is to recompile the kernel and add
the ne2000 support compiled into the kernel as opposed to modules, if
this were done then the append ether "blah blah" would work as
advertised. Approach #2 is to edit the module parameters
/etc/modules.conf I think ?!? Old age is getting to me. :^)

Regards
Bill

PS: I chose #1


> I have 3 D-Link DE-220P network cards installed in 486DX/66 running
> RedHat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel.
> One of the network cards is detected properly and runs fine with the
> NE2000 compatible driver. I've read the  mini HowTo on using multiple
> ethercards, but after following the instructions I still can't get
> Linux to detect my other two cards.

> I've tried the following line in the lilo.conf file:

>         append="ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2"

> And also

> linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2

> from the LILO prompt.

> I've disabled the plug-and-play features within each card and have
> manually configured them to specific IRQ and port numbers.

> Are there additional steps required that the mini HowTo doesn't
> mention? I've played around with the conf.modules file but this only
> seems to have the effect of picking up a different card as my main
> card.

> Help please!

--
William R. Mattil

(972) 256-3219

 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by Hubertus Alexander Hani » Fri, 30 May 1997 04:00:00



>I have 3 D-Link DE-220P network cards installed in 486DX/66 running
>RedHat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel.
>One of the network cards is detected properly and runs fine with the
>NE2000 compatible driver. I've read the  mini HowTo on using multiple
>ethercards, but after following the instructions I still can't get
>Linux to detect my other two cards.

>I've tried the following line in the lilo.conf file:

>    append="ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2"

>And also

>linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2

>from the LILO prompt.

>I've disabled the plug-and-play features within each card and have
>manually configured them to specific IRQ and port numbers.

>Are there additional steps required that the mini HowTo doesn't
>mention? I've played around with the conf.modules file but this only
>seems to have the effect of picking up a different card as my main
>card.

>Help please!

why not give the address of the cards? eg. ether=0x320,11,blah,blah
 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by William R. Matti » Fri, 30 May 1997 04:00:00


This is really not that much of an issue and there are two routes you
can take to get there. 1st approach is to recompile the kernel and add
the ne2000 support compiled into the kernel as opposed to modules, if
this were done then the append ether "blah blah" would work as
advertised. Approach #2 is to edit the module parameters
/etc/modules.conf I think ?!? Old age is getting to me. :^)

Regards
Bill

PS: I chose #1


> I have 3 D-Link DE-220P network cards installed in 486DX/66 running
> RedHat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel.
> One of the network cards is detected properly and runs fine with the
> NE2000 compatible driver. I've read the  mini HowTo on using multiple
> ethercards, but after following the instructions I still can't get
> Linux to detect my other two cards.

> I've tried the following line in the lilo.conf file:

>         append="ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2"

> And also

> linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2

> from the LILO prompt.

> I've disabled the plug-and-play features within each card and have
> manually configured them to specific IRQ and port numbers.

> Are there additional steps required that the mini HowTo doesn't
> mention? I've played around with the conf.modules file but this only
> seems to have the effect of picking up a different card as my main
> card.

> Help please!

--
William R. Mattil

(972) 256-3219
 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by Hubertus Alexander Hani » Fri, 30 May 1997 04:00:00



>I have 3 D-Link DE-220P network cards installed in 486DX/66 running
>RedHat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel.
>One of the network cards is detected properly and runs fine with the
>NE2000 compatible driver. I've read the  mini HowTo on using multiple
>ethercards, but after following the instructions I still can't get
>Linux to detect my other two cards.

>I've tried the following line in the lilo.conf file:

>    append="ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2"

>And also

>linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2

>from the LILO prompt.

>I've disabled the plug-and-play features within each card and have
>manually configured them to specific IRQ and port numbers.

>Are there additional steps required that the mini HowTo doesn't
>mention? I've played around with the conf.modules file but this only
>seems to have the effect of picking up a different card as my main
>card.

>Help please!

why not give the address of the cards? eg. ether=0x320,11,blah,blah
 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by Simon Morg » Sat, 31 May 1997 04:00:00


Thanks for the replies, I managed to work it out for myself in the end
by re-reading the net-modules.txt file in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking and it suddenly clicked into
place.

This is what I did:
Entered the following line into /etc/conf.modules:

options ne io=0x0280,0x02a0,0x0240

After a reboot this picked up all three cards. That's all I had to do
then was copy the ifcfg-eth0 file in network-scripts to ifcfg-eth1 and
ifcfg-eth2 and change the new files appropriately.

 
 
 
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Not detecting 2nd and 3rd network card

Post by Simon Morg » Sat, 31 May 1997 04:00:00


Thanks for the replies, I managed to work it out for myself in the end
by re-reading the net-modules.txt file in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking and it suddenly clicked into
place.

This is what I did:
Entered the following line into /etc/conf.modules:

options ne io=0x0280,0x02a0,0x0240

After a reboot this picked up all three cards. That's all I had to do
then was copy the ifcfg-eth0 file in network-scripts to ifcfg-eth1 and
ifcfg-eth2 and change the new files appropriately.

 
 
 
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