From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Clewett Subject: Network cards and lilo Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 10:49:46 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EB24D4A.6050800@roadrunner.uk.com> References: <008801c31045$af4cce20$0264a8c0@wombie> <16049.60684.662257.74699@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16049.60684.662257.74699@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Vger, I have a problem with two non-PNP network cards. They have been working for about five years in an old Linux box no problem, by passing in lilo: append="ether=3,0x320,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1" Using the NE2000 driver in the kernel. Just upgraded to Linux 2.4.20. Recompiled and installed, and now I get just one network card, not both of them. The second one is missing. Doing an 'lsdev': Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports ------------------------------------------------ ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 f000-f007 ide1 15 0170-0177 0376-0376 f008-f00f NE2000 3 I can see that the kernel has assigned the IRQ 15 I need for my second network card, to 'ide1'. I would guess this is why my network card is not showing. As these are ancient cards which can not easily be reprogrammed, is there any way to tell the kernel to honour my network cards, and not use IRQ=15 for the IDE? Thanks for any help you can give me, Ben Clewett.