> The computer promptly rebooted with a kernel with both drivers in it, but
> no matter what I put in the lilo.conf, the computer _always_ assigned eth0
> to the PCI based 3c905, rather than the ISA ne2000, which became eth1.
> This even with lines like:
>
> append="ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1"
>
> where eth0 is the information about the NE2000. In the end, I've shovelled
> both 3coms into the server and played about a bit. For the 2 hours uptime
> I've had, they appear to be working perfectly acceptably.
I think that the pci probe for ether cards happens first, before the isa
probe begins hence no amount of changing lilo will work. Try compling the
kernel without the 3c509 driver and then put in as a module after tha
machine has booted.
Tim Fletcher .~.
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