On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:08:19PM -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote > >I think eth0 is your FireWire port (IEEE 1394). > > > >You did the right thing already (taking eth0 down). Now you can > >install Gentoo and unless you configure support for Ethernet over > >FireWire (or something similar) in your kernel you shouldn't have any > >problem. > > > >That was my experience anyway (with a different Asus board, but the > >same behavior). > > > > Louis is right, you can also disable this behavior by adding > "nofirewire" at the bootloader line that calls the kernel.
Thanks Daniel and Louis. With "nofirewire" the boot messages showed 2 eth devices, but the real ethernet chip now comes up as eth0, which is what I wanted. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- [email protected] mailing list
