That just doesn't seem to be a good solution. Why wouldn't there be a way for me to tell it which card to use?? Hell, redhat does it! ;)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Truelsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] two Ethernet card > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:56:11 -0500 > "Jeffrey Smelser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to switch my last redhat machine to gentoo. I have been > > kicking it around for a long time and finally going to do it. > > > > I have two eithernet cards on it, I know how to change > conf.d/net and > > making two net.eth1/0. Here is were I am having trouble. How does it > > know which card I am refering to? How does eth0 going to know I want > > ethernet card a, over b.. I can't find where to put that. autoload > > would just load the two modules.. > > > > Redhat, for those who don't know, you reference with > aliases, so eth0 > > would = smc-ultra and you reference eth0 at that point. > Where is this > > in gentoo? > > > In my experience, the card that is seen first when probing > the bus will > be eth0. In the machines that I have dealt with, this generally means > that the one closest to the AGP slot. > > -- > Ian Truelsen > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: ihtruelsen > Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
