Re: PXE kickstart with multiple network cards
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lars Damerow wrote:
> >From Kevin McConnell <kevymac@yahoo.com>, Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:32:44AM -0800:
> >
> > --- Lars Damerow <lars-rhdevel@pixar.com> wrote:
> > > >From Kevin McConnell <kevymac@yahoo.com>, Wed, Jan
> > > 29, 2003 at 11:13:23AM -0800:
> > > >
> > > > This is just something to get your mind working. I
> > > > know there is a way to pass options to modules as
> > > > they're loaded. Using the IRQ and base address,
> > > > couldn't one conceivably assign eth0 to be one and
> > >
> > > That might be possible--I'll check it out.
> >
> > Check the notes for the drivers for details on how to
> > do this. I know for the 3com cards it's possible and
> > that's what I use. I once had a similar problem with
> > some other brand of cards, and that's how I solved the
> > problem. By saying that such and such card residing at
> > this base address is eth0, etc..
> > What type of network card(s) are they?
>
> Documentation/networking/3c509.txt points out the following option:
>
> ether=10,0x310,3,0x3c509,eth0
>
> Is that what you meant? It looks like it.
>
> In our workstations, the cards are 3c59x on-board ethernet and either an Intel
> e1000 or Alteon AceNIC PCI card. Our servers have two on-board e1000 cards.
Removing the modules for the NICs you don't want to use will force the
issue;-)
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