[vortex] Forcing config on dual NICs

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Michael Danicich wrote:

> I've got a box with a 3c900 Cyclone and a 3c905B Cyclone (according to
> dmesg).  the 900 is 10Mb only, while the 905B is 10/100.  I want the 900
> to be eth0, and the 905B to be eth1, but they are reversed.  I'm loading
> the driver as a module, using 2.2.18.

The cards are located in PCI scan order, which is almost always PCI slot
order.  Either physically reverse the position of the cards, or use
the station address to identify which specific card you wish to configure.


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