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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eth0/eth1 detected, but "wired" network is eth1...
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:34:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060403093446.5bced204@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640604021223n60640bemba51f433bd689e8d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:23:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:

> > But what is eht0, wifi? Can I somehow change network detection so that
> > eth0 is wired-ethernet, and eth1 "that other network" (probably
> > wifi)???
> 
> Most likely eth0 is your wifi card.  You can write udev rules to set
> whatever device names you want.

It could also be firewire if you have net1394 set in your kernel

udev rules are the way to go, it's how I keep my three interfaces (wired,
wireless and IEEE1394) consistently named.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

All right, set phasers to deep fat fry!

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-02 12:19 [gentoo-user] eth0/eth1 detected, but "wired" network is eth1 Jarry
2006-04-02 19:23 ` Richard Fish
2006-04-03  6:37   ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-04-03  8:34   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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