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Re: 2 Ethernets(PCI) on a machine. Please HELP...



On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Gilad Kedem wrote:

> I setup slackware(2.2 i believe) on my computer. I wish to be able to use two
> ethernet cards. Both are DE435 PCI cards. At the moment only one ethernet is
> working(/proc/net/dev). What do i need to do in order to use both? How do i 
> know what IRQ and base address to give the cards at the LILO prompt? I 
> tried to do LILO: linux ether=0,0,eth1 but that didnt do much.
> 
I have no idea what this card is, but I suppose it has all the 
configuration in software. all you need to do is run the DOS 
configuration program and change IRQ/DMA/Base Address etc, THEN stick in 
the other card, and give the parameters of BOTH cards in the lilo 
commandline.


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