How do I get my 2(3,4,..) ethernet cards to work?
To make the kernel see additional ethernet cards, you should either pass the parameter ether=IRQ,i/o addr,device at boot time, For example: boot: Linux ether=5,0×320,eth0 or specify it in lilo.conf file image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux append=“ether=5,0×320,eth0” root=/dev/hda2 read-only Note that this will only work for drivers that are compiled into the kernel. If the driver is a module, then you need to specify the parameters in /etc/modules.conf, e.g.
