From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIL9Y-0003BI-Fm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:19:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E61FE0395; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4619E0395 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2681709fks.2 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.51.10 with SMTP id y10mr13841161fgy.6.1216017808836; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilievnet.com ( [84.21.204.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm524884fgg.0.2008.07.13.23.43.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 Message-ID: <20080714094321.7c92ee0b@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20080713113056.2ffce7f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20080709032122.GD5379@waltdnes.org> <20080709084451.24bc05ee@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <20080712235556.GA15967@waltdnes.org> <20080713113056.2ffce7f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 361e6961-f958-4af7-ae20-b73c563ed11d X-Archives-Hash: 92dbef3fb589876856efa173d74c0274 On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:30:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick 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 -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list