Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?

Riley Williams
2001-08-04T19:41:49Z

Hi Thomas.

>> the kernel calls modprobe asking for the network device 'eth0',
>> modprobe uses the configuration file to map this to a module

> so, what happens when you have two eth cards that use the same
> module? in the isa land, the order you pass the io=0x300,0x240
> would determine which order the eth?'s go to...how about in the
> pci world?

One of my systems has SIX ethernet cards, these being three ISA and
two PCI NE2000 clones and a DEC Tulip. Here's the relevant section of
modules.conf on the system in question:

Q> alias eth0 ne
Q> options eth0 io=0x340
Q> alias eth1 ne
Q> options eth1 io=0x320
Q> alias eth2 ne
Q> options eth2 io=0x2c0
Q> alias eth3 ne2k-pci
Q> alias eth4 ne2k-pci
Q> alias eth5 tulip

Best wishes from Riley.