> just to say that this swapping can be very difficult to diagnose to the > basic user. Coming from the i386 world, I would only expect this to > happen with two similar interfaces. I installed a debian (testing) on my > iMac G5 yesterday (only one eth physical inteface), and if this thread > had not been started, I would still be trying to figure out why the eth0 > used by debian-installer was unable to find its IP adress by dhcp after > rebooting in the new system... > > So somehow, this problem must be tackled in some way, otherwise I guess > that there will be a lot of "the installer does not work" reports... > > By the way, what is this second eth interface on iMac G5? The broadcom > card ?
No, it's a virtual interface created by the ethernet-over-firewire driver (and that has the weird "feature" of not always coming up reliably thus screwing up interface numbering). The problem would be exactly the same on x86 if that module was loaded. I would suggest the best is probably to avoid loading/building this module by default to get to a setup that has mostly stable numbering. There is no fundamental difference here between x86 and ppc ... For the broadcom, I don't think debian packages the experimental driver yet. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
