Determining device names

Scott M. Stone sstone@taos.com
Tue Apr 11 20:31:52 2000


On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> How would I assign the I/O addresses to the device names?

something like 'modprobe eepro100 eth0="io=0x00a0"' or something like
that, I think.. please correct if I'm wrong, List.

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-linux-eepro100@beowulf.org
> > [mailto:owner-linux-eepro100@beowulf.org]On Behalf Of Scott M. Stone
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:35 PM
> > To: Orion Poplawski
> > Cc: linux-eepro100@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > Subject: Re: Determining device names
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > > Pardon the newbie question.  I have have three Intel eepro100 
> > interfaces in
> > > a machine.  How do I determine/control which will be eth0, eth1 
> > and eth2?
> > 
> > I think you can manually control that by assigning I/O addresses to the
> > device names, but it's much easier to just let the kernel pick for you.
> > Then just plug the right cables in based on what the machine decides.
> > Works for me, at least :)
> > 
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> > Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@taos.com>
> > UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
> > Taos - The SysAdmin Company 
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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@taos.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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