Hello, ====== I am using 2.2.1 kernel and I have 3 Ethernet cards in my Linux box (all are Realtek 8029 PCI). The 3rd was added recently. I wanted to preserve my settings - I knew that adding the 3rd card would change my present eth0 and eth1 name-to-adapter assignments.
So I added an "append" line to my lilo.conf, filled it with proper values, ran lilo and restarted my server. After booting it up I ended up with swapped names of cards so I thought I made a mistake somewhere. I made more experiments - and I observed that the ne2k-pci driver completely ignored the values specified in ether= parameters. Is it possible that ne2k-pci looks for more than one network card automatically (and therefore disregards the "ether=" parameter)? If so, do all drivers do the same, or is this just a speciality of ne2k-pci? I haven't noticed any message telling me that I've supplied a wrong parameter to the kernel. Does any of you know if something has changed in 2.2.x about that "ether=" parameter? Again, I am using 2.2.1 kernel with built-in ne2k-pci driver (not as a module). By the way, where can I get some information about new parameters which can be passed to 2.2.x kernels? Is BootPrompt HOWTO updated already? Thank you in forward. All the very best, Peter -- ********************************* * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * ----------------------------- * * cell phone: +905 16 44 32 * * home phone: +421 826 421 2542 * *********************************