Charles Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My 2-cents worth: If you have 2 identical ethernet cards, they need
> to be compiled into the kernel. It's in a howto somewhere;
> apparently there are problems making eth1 start up if they're
> identical and modular.
That makes some sense, because you can't give the options in
/etc/conf.modules. How would the kernel know to which card the options
apply? It's the same module.
Instead, you would need to "modprobe" the modules manually, specifying
the cards in the order you want them to appear, eth0 first, then eth1
second.
It can still work as a module. But either way can be made to work.
> FWIW, I've run into some size problems with kernel 2.2.4 this weekend,
> being too big to fit a zImage size limit. I had to move lots of
> things from compiled-in to modules. I'd seen some reports of, and run
> into, problems with a bzImage kernel.
The reports seem to show that bzImage works on most systems; you should
at least try it, if you don't like modules. But then, I like modules,
so I compile everything that I can think of into a module. :)
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