[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble adding 2nd NIC

[TJ Bell]

Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:
> 
>  Just look at the chip on the NIC.  Does it say "DEC Tulip"?  You ought to be
> able to just run "insmod tulip" from the command line.  If it's not a tulip,
> look in the lib/modules/`uname -r`/net for other NIC drivers and just try them.
> Check out the documentationn in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking.
> 
> You don't need to be messing with initrd.

I'm not at the NIC now to look at the chip, but the weird thing is that
the documentation says to use the tulip module yet `insmod tulip` gives
me "Device or resource busy." (worthless error msg)

I'm going to try the append="ether=0,0,eth1" and see what that does.

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