> > > 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
>
> This is a slight problem, as I boot from disk. There is no HD in the
> machine.
How is the disk made bootable? I suspect via lilo in which case add the
line just below the kernel image define in lilo.conf:
append="ether=0,0,eth1"
And relilo the disk
> And what if I want to boot from ROM?
I have been meaning to try to get linux booting from a rom for a while I
have an eepro isa with a boot rom, I need to spend sometime hacking to see
if I can get it to boot thou. In short can't help :)
> It must be possible in some way to get the second card up afterwards.
The easist way I think would be to put a card of a differnet type in the
machine, ie a 8013, ne2k, smc-ultra or something else in place of the
3c509, and compile the kernel with the 3c905 driver in and the second
driver as a module and then load it later.
> It looks to me like bootp (or something) does something weird, cos when
> I insmod 3c509, both cards are found at once, but the kernel driver
> finds only one. I don't pass any parameters to the insmod, neither do I
> have any in /etc/conf.modules (I think, I'll have to check this).
I seem to remember that the 3c905 driver probes for all cards in a
machine when it is installed as a module, but the kernel only probes for 1
ethernet card by default, thinking about it you can proberbly change the
kernel source to up the number of cards that it looks for by default, not
my area thou sorry (can't code yet :)
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