Correct ether= parameters for 8139too (RealTek 8139) ?

[Shaf [Mobile]]

Hi,
My apologies for the major spam here but this problem is really causing me havoc :)

Basically my machine has 2xIntel eepro onboard NICs and 1 RealTek 8139 PCI NIC.
My problem is that I am unable to force the RealTek Card register as a specific device namely eth2 - it always decides to register itself as eth0.

Let's take my previous configuration.
Kernel Version : 2.4.17
Let's assume that modules e100 have not been compiled (source Intel who so not support these drivers to be built into the kernel)

/etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 e100
alias eth2 8139too

If for whatever reason eth0/1 do not come up eg unresolved symbol/module not installed… The RealTek (8139too) registers itself as eth0 regardless of what options I give eth2…. So I decided to compile 8139too into the kernel in order to parse ether= parameters to it via LILO.

Current Configuration
Kernel Version : 2.4.17 (with 8139too built in)

/etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 e100
##alias eth2 8139too (not needed obviously)

No matter what ether= parameters I parse to the kernel at boot time the RealTek card is registered as eth0 :(
So I ended up trying to debug 8139too and recomped it.

Can anyone please indicate what the correct ether= parameters I should be parsing to the kernel in order to register the card to eth2 or even a hack for 8139too.c ?

Here's as much data as I can give you….
Many thanks in advance,
Shaf

	Much code comes from Donald Becker's rtl8139.c driver,
	versions 1.13 and older.  This driver was originally based
	on rtl8139.c version 1.07.  Header of rtl8139.c version 1.13:
	
DPRINTK("about to register device named %s (%p)...\n", dev->name, dev);
	i = register_netdev (dev);

/proc/bus/pci/devices
0048	10ec8139	b	0000c001	dffcdf00	00000000	00000000	00000000	00000000	dffb0000	00000100	00000100	00000000	00000000	00000000	00000000	00010000	8139too

ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BF:74:8D:BC  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xaf00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

/proc/pci

  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffcdf00 [0xdffcdfff].

/proc/ioports
c000-c0ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
  c000-c0ff : 8139too

/proc/iomem
dffcdf00-dffcdfff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
  dffcdf00-dffcdfff : 8139too

dmesg
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.22
rtl8139_init_board: PIO region size == 0x100
rtl8139_init_board: MMIO region size == 0x100
rtl8139_init_board: chipset id (116) == index 5, 'RTL-8139C'
rtl8139_init_board: PCI PM wakeup
rtl8139_init_one: about to register device named eth%d (f7e7f800)...
Shaf :<6>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf880af00, c02a93fa:00:c02a5426:50:c02a5426:bf, IRQ -1070967770
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'