Best would be to delete/move the module for that hardware, and de-configure it from the kernel.
or remap ethX manually using /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules BillK On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 22:12 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2012 09:51 PM, James wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > OK so I'm now running udev-196-r1; booting fine now. > > > > upon reboot: > > net.eth0 [ stopped ] > > net.eth3 [ started ] > > netmount [ stopped ] > > sshd [ stopped ] > > > > eth0 is the mobo ethernet port, and it is fried. > > I have not used it in years. eth3 is an add on 100M > > ethernet card that has worked flawlessly. It is > > working fined still. > > > > /etc/conf.d/eth3 is set up and works just fine. > > > > The easiest thing to do to fix this problem is > > unmap the eth0 hardware. Where best to do that? > > > > from lspci: > > 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) <mobo> > > > > 1:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation > > DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) > > > > Ideas on how to best fix this? Make the Nvidia ethernet chip > > invisible and the dec ethernet chip will automaticall be eth0? > > > > Other ideas? > > > > James > > > > > > Well, most motherboards give BIOS (UEFI?) option to disable some > hardware that's present onboard. > I've a relatively old machine, so don't know what's the thing with UEFI. > My PC's BIOS has option to disable many things like Ethernet, Audio, > Serial Port, etc. >
