Two CNET PRO120s in same box

[Jason Thomas]

We have two systems with dual tulip based cards.  They seem to detect both
cards with out and options parsed to the modules.  I agree with trying a
line in your lilo.conf

By the way our cards are d-link dfe500tx if that helps.

Stephen Host [shost@uoguelph.ca] wrote:
> The solution is simple: edit /etc/lilo.conf and put the following inside
> your main boot kernel:
> 
> append= "ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1"
> 
> Once done, rerun lilo
> /sbin/lilo -t , then if it works OK, /sbin/lilo
> 
> (use -t to test the configuration, i make a habit of it)
> 
> Say, you put a third netcard in the mahcine.. just add another
> ether=0,0,eth2 into the append section.
> 
> Just for your reference, one of my entries (main boot entry) for lilo.conf
> is:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>       label=linux
>       root=/dev/sda1
>       read-only
>       append="ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1"
> 
> all entries before and after this are fine, you can leave them untouched.
> 
> 
> Once you have entered this, re-ran lilo, and rebooted, it should detect
> two ethernet cardsof the same type.. or three (or four) if you add more.. =)
>        
> Hope this works for you.
> 
> 
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> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, root wrote:
> 
> > I have installed two CNET PRO120s in the same box.  One is for local
> > machines,
> > the other is to be for a DSL connection which will soon be made, but is
> > not set up yet.  In readiness for this I have tried putting both cards
> > in the machine, which
> > is running RedHat Linux 6.1.  My problem is that I cannot figure out the
> > way to get the system to recognize both cards.  As long as I put only
> > one ethernet interface
> > (eth0) into /etc/conf.modules, all is well.  And I can use either card -
> > the local lan works.
> > 
> > However, when I try to get the system to recognize both cards, neither
> > works.
> > Since the box boots both Linux and Win95, I am able to go into Win95 and
> > learn that
> > one card is at IRQ 10, IO address 0xF800-0xFBFF, and the other is IRQ
> > 11, IO address 0xFC00-0xFCFF
> > 
> > 
> > No matter how I try to put this information in, and I've tried all the
> > configurations in the Ethernet HOWTO for dealing with two cards, it
> > fails to initialize either one.
> > 
> > Only this configuration works 
> > 
> > alias tulip eth0
> > 
> > If I try both
> > 
> > alias tulip eth0
> > alias tulip eth1
> > options tulip irq=10,11 io=0xf800,0xfc00
> > 
> > it fails.  If I try to do it on two lines, that is
> > 
> > options tulip -o tulip-lan irq=10 io=0xf800
> > options tulip -o tulip-inet irq=11 io=0xfc00
> > 
> > this also fails.
> > 
> > Doh! I just thought of something - do the irq#s have to be hexadecimal
> > also?
> > I doubt it will work but I will give it a try.  In the meantime, if
> > anyone has any other ideas please let me hear them.
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