[newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

[Lon Lentz]

  I'm setting up a firewall system for a DSL connection using 7.1. I'm using
2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes
both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to
recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer
wouldn't recognize them (although I did try). How do I go about doing this?


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Re: [newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

[CB]

Lon Lentz wrote:

 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes

same here

 both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to
 recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer

You must first know the io and irq addresses for both cards.  Then put
them in order as below (eth0 is 0x300,10 and eth1 is 0x320,11 on my
machine)  From a RedHat system, but should be about the same.  This is
in my rc.sysinit somewhere after the swap is enabled.

action "Forcing network modules" modprobe ne io=0x300,0x320 irq=10,11
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