Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:30:56 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:55:56 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> > > Udev is doing this. If you have removed the second card,
> > > delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, otherwise edit
> > > the file to switch the assignments for the two NICs.  
> > 
> >   Thanks.  A "new and improved helpfull feature" that could've done
> > without.
> 
> It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you
> have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is
> better than having your private network connected to the Internet
> because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order.
> 
> 


IIRC:

1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the
modules
2) If you build the the drivers in-kernel the the order is determined
by the PCI slot numbers



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Best regards,
Daniel
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