On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: : >Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the : >information on the append line, like this: : > : >append="mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1" : > : >I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables : >autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which interface is : >which, don't you? : > : >I hope this helps. By the way, my two cards are 3C509B's. : : How do you know which card is going to end up getting which values is it : in the system bios?
Well, because I've set them to non-plug-and-play mode and manually chosen irq and io port values, as any sane user would :) : How do you know exactly what the values are....lucky guess? Nope - evil technology - DOS!! Boot to a DOS disk and run 3Com's config utility. It's on their website. : I'm using two 3c905's with the latest patch to 3c59x.c from D. Becker : inserted into the kernel sources before compiling a custom kernel.. : : What I was planning to do was the old empiric method...if: Well, by all means head on over to the website and get the driver disk for the Boomerang. There's a 3c905 config utility, tells you the MAC address and the whole works. Much easier than the empiric method. : 1<-->A and 2<-->B doesn't work, why then I'll just connect : 1<-->B and 2<-->A !!! : : I figure the things are going to get assigned at boot the same way each : time. But I would like to know how to do things the "Right Way". : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
