This specifies the name of your machine.
Examples: 'eis', 'iceland' ...
Number of modules that shall be loaded to operate your network cards.
Kernel module that has to be loaded for a specific network card. Here is a list
of possible module names:
Name Bus Description
3c501 ISA 3COM EtherLink (3c501)
3c503 ISA 3COM EtherLinkII (3c503)
3c505 ISA 3COM Etherlink Plus (3c505)
3c507 ISA 3COM Etherlink 16 (3c507)
3c509 ISA 3COM EtherLinkIII (3c509)
3c515 ISA 3COM EtherLink XL ISA (3c515)
3c59x PCI 3COM Vortex/Boomerang 3c59x,3c900,3c905
82596 --- Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet
ac3200 EISA Ansel Communications EISA 3200
acenic PCI Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit
amd8111e PCI AMD 8111 (new PCI lance)
arcnet --- Generic ARCnet
arlan PCI Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS
at1700 ISA AT1700 (Fujitsu 86965) ISA
atp PAR AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter
b44 PCI Broadcom 4400 ethernet support
cs89x0 ISA IBM Etherjet, cs89x0 based Cards
(Option io=0xnnn necessary!)
de4x5 PCI/EISA Digital DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450, DE500
depca ISA DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422
dgrs PCI Digi International RightSwitch PCI/EISA
defxx PCI Digital DEFEA and DEFPA adapter (FDDI)
depca PCI DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422
dgrs PCI Digi Intl RightSwitch SE-X
dl2k PCI D-Link 2000-based Gigabit Ethernet
dmfe PCI DM9102 compatible PCI cards from Davicom
e2100 ISA Cabletron E21xx ISA
elp486 ISA Intel Professional Workstation/panther 82596
e100 PCI EtherExpress Pro/100
e1000 PCI Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
e2100 PCI Cabletron E21xx
eepro ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
eepro100 PCI Intel EtherExpressPro PCI 10+/100B/100+
eexpress ISA EtherExpress16 ISA
epic100 PCI SMC EPIC/100 (EtherPower II) PCI
eth16i ISA/EISA ICL EtherTeam 16i/32
ewrk3 ISA EtherWORKS 3 ISA (DE203, DE204, DE205)
fealnx PCI ASOUND LAN 8139 card - not RTL8139!
forcedeth PCI nForce Ethernet
hp ISA HP PCLAN (27245, 27xxx) ISA
hp-plus ISA HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) ISA
hamachi PCI Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II
hp100 ISA/EISA/PCI HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI)
intel-gige PCI Intel Gigabit Ethernet adapters
lance ISA AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500, NE2100) ISA
lp486e PCI LP486E on board Ethernet
myson803 PCI Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet
natsemi PCI Nat Semi
ne ISA NE2000 ISA clone (eg Realtek 8019,
Accton 16xx, NatSemi 8390, UMC 9003/9008)
ne2k-pci PCI NE2000 PCI (eg Realtek 8029, Winbond 89c940)
ni5010 PCI NI5010
ni52 PCI NI5210
ni65 PCI NI6510
ns83820 PCI National Semiconductor DP83820, also
SMC 9452TX, SMC SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, PureData PDP8023Z-TG,
SOHO-GA2000T, SOHO-GA2500T, NetGear GA621
ns820 PCI Donald Becker's version of DP83820 driver
pcnet32 PCI AMD PCI PCnet32
r8169 PCI Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet
rtl8139-orig PCI RealTek 8129/8139 (not 8019/8029!)
8139too PCI RealTek 8139 10/100
8139cp PCI RealTek 8139C+ 10/100
rtl8139 PCI D Becker's version of RealTek 8139 driver
sb1000 ISA General Instruments Surfboard 1000
sis900 PCI SiS 900/7016
sk98lin PCI Marvell Yukon, SysKonnect SK-98xx
and SK-95xx Gigabit
skfp PCI SysKonnect FDDI PCI
smc-ultra ISA SMC Ultra
smc-ultra32 EISA SMC Ultra32
smc9194 PCI SMC 9194
starfire PCI Starfire
sundance PCI DFE-550FX or DFE-530TXS
sungem PCI Sun GEM: GigabitEthernet/P 2 0
sunhme PCI Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT
tg3 PCI Broadcom Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet
tlan PCI TI ThunderLAN (Compaq Netelligent )
tulip PCI DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI
old_tulip PCI Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI
typhoon PCI 3CR990 series 'Typhoon'
via-rhine PCI VIA Rhine PCI (3043, VT86c100A, dfe-530tx)
rhinefet PCI Yet another Rhine driver
wd ISA SMC WD80*3
winbond-840 PCI Winbond 840
yellowfin PCI Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC / Symbios 53c885
pcnet_cs PCMCIA NS8390-based cards (NE2000, DLINK etc)
3c574_cs PCMCIA 3Com 574
3c575_cb PCMCIA 3Com 575
3c589_cs PCMCIA 3Com 589
airo PCMCIA Airo 4500 & 4800 series cards
airo_cs PCMCIA Airo 4500 & 4800 series cards
eepro100_cb PCMCIA EtherExpress Pro 100
epic_cb PCMCIA SMC 83c170 EPIC/100
ibmtr_cs PCMCIA IBM Token Ring
netwave_cs PCMCIA Netwave AirSurfer Wireless LAN
nmclan_cs PCMCIA New Media Ethernet LAN
ray_cs PCMCIA Raylink wireless cards
smc91c92_cs PCMCIA SMC91c92-based cards
tulip_cb PCMCIA DEC 21040-family cards
wavelan_cs PCMCIA WaveLAN
wavelan2_cs PCMCIA WaveLAN2
wvlan_cs PCMCIA Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802 11
xirc2ps_cs PCMCIA Xircom: CE2, CEM28, CEM33, or CE3
wl24_cs PCMCIA ELSA Airlancer MC-2
cs89x0_cs PCMCIA IBM EtherJet Ethernet Adapter
orinoco_cs PCMCIA Orinoco Based WLAN Cards
axnet_cs PCMCIA Asix AX88190 Fast Ethernet
realtek_cb PCMCIA Realtek 8139 Based PCMCIA Cards
(D-Link DFE-690TXD)
xircce_cs PCMCIA Xircom CreditCard Ethernet CE-10
Additional options that have to be supplied when the module is loaded. Very ofter this are hardware
parameters such as interrupts, io- or memory addresses or tranceiver types.
Examples: irq=11 io=0x300 ...
Number of local networks connected to your machine.
Other device name than ethX (optional).
IP address of your n'th ethernet card.
Example: 192.168.0.1
Network of your LAN.
Example: 192.168.0.0
Netmask of your LAN.
Example: 255.255.255.0
Your default gateway. A default gateway is the machine that routes network traffic from
and to other networks. Very often this is the router connected to the internet.
Examples: fli4l router ...
Number of additional routes.
Additional route: network netmask gateway
Example: "192.168.7.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.6.99" routes all network traffic related to
network "192.168.7.0/24" to the gateway machine "192.168.6.99"
Your domain name. The local domain your machine is a member of. All unqualified host names
will automatically be expanded with the local domain suffix.
Example: local.network
The IP-Adress of the machine that hosts the DNS-Server of your local network. A DNS-Server
is required to translate host names to IP-Adresses.
Example: "127.0.0.1" the DNS-Server runs on this eisfair server.
Time zone, use "CET" or "GMT"
Shall PCMCIA support be activated on this machine? "yes" or "no"
PCMCIA socket driver: "i82365" or "tcic"
Additional options for the socket driver. Usually empty.
Additional options for the PCMCIA core driver. Usually empty.
Additional options for the PCMCIA card manager. Usually empty.
Shall syslog-deamon and klogd be started? "yes" or "no"
Number or destinations for syslog messages.
Syslog destination. Enter priority and destination for syslog messages.
Example 1: "*.* /var/log/messages" causes all messages to be written to the
specified file.
Example 2: "kern.info @192.168.6.2" causes messages 'kern.info' to be redirected
to another machine.
Example 3: "*.* /dev/console" causes all messages to be write to the
console.
Command to be executed after logrotate.
Mark interval in minutes, 0 = off. When this value is greater than zero, a
"--- MARK ---" message is generated every n minutes and written to your
system logs.
Number of log files to save. This is the number of log file archives that are kept
on the system by logrotate, before they are outdated and removed.
Logrotate interval: daily, weekly, monthly. How often shall logrotate be executed?
Additional options for syslog deamon. Example "-r".
Shall the AT-deamon be started? "yes" or "no"
Keyboard mapping. Use "de-latin1" for german keyboards.
Shall the system be switched off automatically after shutdown? "yes" or "no".
Power off a machine running the SMP kernel? "yes" or "no".
Use realmode? "yes" or "no"
Number of additional modules (drivers) to be loaded on system startup.
Name of the module to load.
Additional options that have to be supplied when the module is loaded.