[BLU] Re: Add hardware later?

[david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:

> Interesting thread.  I just ran into the same problem.
> 
> Every Linux installation I've done to date has autodetected the card(s)
> I want to use.  If not, recompiling the kernel to include the driver has
> done the trick.  Except on the machine I'm trying to set up right now...
> 
> Here's my question: how do you know what IRQ and interupt to specify for
> your card?  The Net3-4 HOWTO tells me that my card's manufacturer

The default was mentioned in the email I mentioned.  The manufacturer's
website might say in other cases.

> probably sent me a DOS disk that lets me configure my card.  I don't
> have that.  The card I have is a good old 3COM 509.  3COM's site has no
> configuration utilities for the card that I could find either.

That's almost always downloadable from the manufacturer.

> I'm actually trying to put *two* 509's in this machine, if that makes
> any difference (even just one card doesn't work right now, though).

You will need to put two *sets* of lines in your conf.module file to
specify which card is which, unless it's PCI, and then they will be
assigned eth0 and eth1 automatically


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