From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261572AbUBUPdb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261574AbUBUPdb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:33:31 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:48033 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261572AbUBUPd3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:33:29 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sergey Vlasov Subject: Re: Multiple NIC cards in the same machine and 2.5/2.6 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:33:18 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200402210815.55770.notellin@speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.177.124.23 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:15:55 -0500, NoTellin wrote: > alias eth0 ne > alias eth1 ne > options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x300 irq=3 > options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x200 irq=5 > alias eth2 winbond-840 > alias eth3 3c509 > > This works perfectly fine for the 2.4.x series of kernels up to > and including 2.4.24 > > However, I can't get this to work in any 2.5/2.6 kernel. The 2.6 > series of kernels will recognize that there are 3 nic cards but > doesn't seem to accept 2 copies of the ne nic drivers in memory. > I've tested this up to and including 2.6.3. There is no need to load two copies of the ne module. Just use: alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options ne io=0x300,0x200 irq=3,5