On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:33:53 -0700 (PDT)
Eric Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, April 21, 2005 7:44 am, fire-eyes said:
> > Some of you may have seen my posts regarding this on gentoo-user,
> > thought i'd try here too.
> >
> > I runa 2.6 kernel. I have two NIC's. One is a built-in 100Mbps, and the
> > second is a 64-bit PCI 1000Mbps NIC. The 100Mbps comes up as eth0, the
> > 10000 as eth1. I want to switch this around.
> 
> If you're loading the drivers as modules, just change the order they load
> in. If you've built a module-less kernel then you're pretty much sol
> because it will name them as it detects them.
> 

The situation is even worst than that because I remember that in early releases 
of 2.6 kernel the way the kernel detect NIC's change from one version to 
another and so broke your network setup.

Patrick Benoit
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