Technical data

3. Base conﬁguration

No space is allowed before or after the comma!

This does not work with all network adapter drivers. Some of them need to be loaded

twice, i.e. you have to use NET_DRV_N=’2’. In this case you will have to assign diﬀerent

names to the adapters by using the “-o” option, e.g.

NET_DRV_N='2'

NET_DRV_1='3c503'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION='-o 3c503-0 io=0x280'

NET_DRV_2='3c503'

NET_DRV_2_OPTION='-o 3c503-1 io=0x300'

We recommend to try the “comma” method ﬁrst before falling back to loading the driver

multiple times.

Some more examples:

• 1 x NE2000 ISA

NET_DRV_1='ne'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION='io=0x340'

• 1 x 3COM EtherLinkIII (3c509)

NET_DRV_1='3c509'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION=''

For this adapter, see also:

http://extern.fli4l.de/fli4l_faqengine/faq.php?display=faq&faqnr=132&catnr=

7&prog=1

http://extern.fli4l.de/fli4l_faqengine/faq.php?display=faq&faqnr=133&catnr=

7&prog=1

http://extern.fli4l.de/fli4l_faqengine/faq.php?display=faq&faqnr=135&catnr=

7&prog=1

• 2 x NE2000 ISA

NET_DRV_1='ne'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION='io=0x320,0x340'

Here, you will often need to specify the IRQ values:

NET_DRV_1_OPTION='io=0x320,0x340 irq=3,5'

You should ﬁrst try the conﬁguration without specifying any IRQs and enter IRQs

only if the network adapters are not found otherwise.

• 2 x NE2000 PCI

NET_DRV_1='ne2k-pci'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION=''

• 1 x NE2000 ISA, 1 x NE2000 PCI

NET_DRV_1='ne'

NET_DRV_1_OPTION='io=0x340'

NET_DRV_2='ne2k-pci'

NET_DRV_2_OPTION=''

• 1 x SMC WD8013, 1 x NE2000 ISA