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21 years ago

Second ethernet port

I have a custom board with two 91c111 ethernet ports. uClinux recognizes the first port as eth0, but can't find eth1. I've tried the usual kernel parameters to autoprobe the second port, bu...
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21 years ago

Thanks for the info Scott. Unfortunately, I'm just a HW guy trying to hack the kernel a bit and get some testing done. I tried several different values in the two arrays you mentioned but no change. The address that the kernel maps the first port to does not match the actual HW address. This probably isn't important, since the first port works fine.

Any suggestions for values? Should they match the ether= and reserve= on the kernel command line, or do I need some other probe function call somewhere else?

-Gary