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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
>    Consider  we have two ISA 3c509 cards, one at I/O 0x300 
>    and one at I/O 0x320. For ISA cards, edit the conf.modules 
>    file and add:
>                  alias eth0 3c509
>                  alias eth1 3c509
>                  options 3c509 io=0x300,0x320
>
> I think if I put in this alias then I type insmod eth0  
> without the address, right?  

No.  insmod does not look in /etc/conf.modules

> Or I type insmode 3c509 io-0x300 

That should be: insmod 3c509 io=0x300

> (or 0x320 - would that also work?).

It will only work if 0x320 is the actual address of the card.
In your example, the address of the first card is 0x300 and
the address of the second card in 0x320.  What the actual 
address of your card is, I do not know.  However, it is 
probably not an issue.  A simple "insmod 3c509" will probably 
auto-detect the address.  AFAIK only a ne2000 ISA card requires 
an address in the insmod.  

Cheers,
Steven