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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> So what is the above all about?  Elsewhere I read modules.conf not
> conf.modules.

Steven made a typo, I think (transposing modules and conf): modules.conf
is correct.  But I think he's saying there is no such file in BL.  Other,
more full blown distros (Slack, Debian) have such a file, but BL does not.
I think I've read you can pass those additional NIC parameters to the
kernel at boot if you're using lilo - not sure about loadlin.  Maybe
there's a way to specify them in a BL startup script as well?

James