From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHvDw-0007mj-AG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:42:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFE5AE01C9; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16EBE01C9 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so782866fge.14 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:42:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rPVATtkFDjFnvdf7Ki0gsCslX/ywyxBy3KMmUTMuAn8=; b=Y7zAYh7f7tCmspOC6LNjFRqsH4lE/t0k9r1PbamUgMQDkcK2I+6SAcGeD7KCtNU5mD HU3eA215UIh0nLH2Ys0vyW9ySxdyuCTC+xSoDi4YX9YfCVGkFvFoSPsme29h0/PaD15K 12kFgSaQZ9Bg9r1+GCLjP18Vxm29Iuoh9hyog= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HzvqUyeuBTvsEnYM9psfy7GjsnIR2DE7JJzCySll16hdt8Q9/DNvKTjFxJW+2C+wiJ RsWBQHNoD6JL+qn/p2nE6H9phPYdbvuWoeN0et8OCWDwV/+vsyLth8zeoG0770AFUVRG BSGxqSf/Io+f41h25HOq791KOKJ089Cz8Ut3o= Received: by 10.86.86.2 with SMTP id j2mr3941171fgb.74.1245483770161; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.159? (r169h159.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.159]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm774848fga.14.2009.06.20.00.42.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A3C92F3.8050301@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:42:43 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded References: <1245481611.436368@rumba> <200906200925.49727.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200906200925.49727.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 634e4216-a1a2-413a-b55a-8f2aba0fe006 X-Archives-Hash: 2ef8e6d222472dd25bec5d1a53bcb2db Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 09:06:51 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a box that serves as a firewall and thus has different NICs. >> However when booting I run into a problem: >> >> One of the NICs needs the de4x5 driver another the tulip one. Udev >> loads tulip first, which then tries to claim the card the needs de4x5 >> but this does not work. So I have to manually set things straight after- >> wards. Is there a way to force it to first load de4x5 and then tulip? >> /etc/modules.autoload.d seems to be used too late. >> > > You can let udev assign persistant names to your network interfaces. > > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > KERNEL=="eth*", ATTRS{address}=="00:1c:25:1a:ee:0c", NAME="lan0" > KERNEL=="wlan*", ATTRS{address}=="00:1e:4c:37:39:41", NAME="wlan0" > > Then create the appropriate symlinks for them in /etc/init.d. > > HTH... > > Dirk > Could he not just build the modules into the kernel and then not have to worry about the loading at all? Heck, the only module I use is nvidia but it is not a "in kernel" option. Just a though. He may have a reason for using modules. Dale :-) :-)