built in support for device or modularized question

[Joel Hammer]

You can pass parameters at boot time, and they can, if memory serves, be put
into lilo.conf.
Here is what I have in mine. 
image = /vmlinuz.works.Jan222000
       label = LinuxJan22
        root = /dev/hda3
        read-only
        append = "aha152x=0x340,12,7 ether=0,0,eth1, hdc=52946,16,63"         

I don't have to supply anything but the information that I have two
NIC's. They are both PCI, but you sound like you have ISA cards.

This is an example from a book for lilo.conf:
ether=IRQ,port,mem_start,men_end,name
ether=5, 0x280, 0xD800, 0xDFFF, eth0

This example didn't use the append parameter. You may have to experiment.

Make sure you have more than one lilo.conf entry so you can reboot the
computer if you really mess one of the lilo.conf entries.
Joel

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:06:08PM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got a box running Slackware 8 that I am gonna use to make a firewall 
> and during a recompile of the kernel, I made the support for my NE2000 
> clone ISA ethernet cards part of the kernel instead of a module by 
> mistake and didn't realize until I was done that I did it.  
> 
> During start up, it finds the card and puts it a a DMA of 0x300 but 
> errors out on IRQ 5 with an error 22.  Is there a way to pass different 
> parameters to the drivers similar to the way of doing a modprobe and 
> adding the parameters to the end?  I looked for a config file to add 
> different parameters (and configure the 2nd card) in all the usual 
> spots but came up empty.  
> 
> Also as an aside, when running pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf, the systems 
> hangs and requires a hard reboot.  The only cards in this box are the 2 
> NICS.  Is this because the support is compiled in instead of 
> modularized?  
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -- 
> Tom Wilson
> Reg. Linux User #199331
> 
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