Second Ethernet interface

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

I apologize if this has been discussed, but are the two ethernet cards the
SAME.  Are they both 3C509's?

If so, I have done it by using the config utility in DOS realmode (F8 as
Mike pointed out) and assigning them each a unique I/O and IRQ (to the
system as well as the cards themselves) and writing the info down.  Then,
boot the machine into Linux and make sure it sees one of the cards and
calls it eth0.  Then append the parameters calling the second card eth1 to
lilo.conf, re-install Lilo and reboot into linux.  When the kernel gets
the new parameters, it loads the devices and you see the messages on the
console during boot-up.  With two cards, you have to pass parameters.  

It worked well for me...

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking