[tulip] why does tulip ignore my kernel options?

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jeremy Hansen wrote:

> I havew tulip built into my kernel.  It's a dual port card and I want it
> to initialize using the first port at eth1 and the second port as eth2.
> 
> So, I'm passing these paramters:
> 
> ether=0,0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,0x3080,eth2
> 
> but it refuses to listen.  It still initializes the card as eth0 and eth1.

The Ethernet interface names are assigned in order.
With some kernels the following might work:
   ether=0,-1,eth0 ether=0,0,0,eth1


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