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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > > >
> > > >    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,

Steven is not the one who wrote conf.modules in the above extract from a 
web page that explained how to use two ethernet cards in one machine.  
Someone else posted here about conf.modules one time.  It seems to be a 
common mistake, if modules.conf is the correct version.  I did not find a 
file of either name in BL2, or try to use this method.  I don't plan to 
leave ISA cards in my machines because I don't have free slots, so it is 
just as easy to type insmod tulip as insmod eth0 (using an alias).


> 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?

Is it possible instead to just write and use a script to load the modules 
with the correct address and irq?  I tried this with plip and could not 
get the script to work, though typing the five lines manually worked.

> 
> James
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