[eepro100] Multiple nics in a box

Jan Just Keijser janjust@cisco.com
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:39:10 +0200


have you tried booting using

  linux pci=reverse

this will reverse the PCI scan which should make your onboard NIC show
up first; otherwise, try

  linux pci=nosort

HTH.

JJK


Yves Cognet wrote:

> We are running RedHat 7.0 on CA810E with several Intel NICs (2 or 3
> Ethernet connections). On NIC is onboard and we get one or two Intel
> PCI cards. We would like for commodity to force eth0 to be the onboard
> NIC whatever is the configuration. At the present time , it is always
> the last detected one (either eth1 or eth2) We 've tried several
> options to force the kernel to scan the PCI bus the other way, but we
> didn't get the expected  sequence.What we would like is something
> likeOnboard Ethernet controller : eth01st PCI NIC : eth12nd PCI NIC :
> eth2 .....