> I'm booting an NFS-root machine with bootp, and that works almost fine.
> The problem is that I have 2 3c509tp cards in the machine. I have of
> course compiled the driver into the kernel. The problem is that only one
> of the NICs is detected by the kernel on boot. So when the system starts
> up, I only have eth0. If I try to 'ifconfig eth1 ipaddr', eth0 seems to
> be reconfigured, as I loose contact with the nfs filesystem, and all I can
> do is reboot. After a lot of trying with this, I decided to just try to
> load the kernel module, even though the driver is compiled into the
> kernel. What happens then is that both cards are detected, and I
> immediately lose access to the nfs-filesystem again. I do not know if it
> is even supposed to work to load the module when the driver is already in
> the kernel, but this is what happens when I try :)
> I'd appreciate any tips on how to get this working.
At the lilo prompt (or some other way of passing peramaters to the kernel)
type: linux (or what ever boot image you use) ether=0,0,eth1
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