Help! This is my first posting here so please bear with my ignorance. I am trying to get a linux router going on a floppy only system as per the Linuxrouter project, so I've built a floppy and installed the correct modules on it. This LRP is based on Debian, I'm more familiar with redhat. Here is my question: in redhat there is a file called /etc/modules.conf which maps drivers to ifnames by way of alias lines. The working HD based router system I run has the following two lines: alias eth0 ne alias eth1 natsemi telling it which if matches with which driver, logical & sensible. The floppy-based system has a file called /etc/modules It says they are loaded with insmod and there is no dependency checking, no modprobe, etc. it contains the following two lines: eepro io=0x300 ne io=0x300,0x350 (because this box contains an intel etherexpress nic and ne2K compatible one) The intel eexpress NIC has been known to work in another box. I do not understand how it knows which one is supposed to be eth0 and which one is supposed to be eth1, and I do not understand the io=??? args, I understand they might have somthing to do with IRQ settings and ioport but those numbers I just copied off some example and I have no idea if they are correct for my box, or how you would go about finding this out. Some place says interrupt 11and io 500 Whatever I'm pretty sure they shouldn't both be the same. When I replace this box in place of my good router with a known good hub & LAN I can't even get the cards to configure. ifconfig only gives me lo. This box has a network.conf that is supposed to configure them but I'm guessing it can't because of the drivers, settings, mappings or some combo. Changing anything on these floppies is really a pain, so any shortcuts would be appreciated. Thanks Colleen Dick Laugh your way to the bank at http://www.navehumor.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
