Figure out which PCI slots are which (each has a number), then try assigning IRQ's to each of your NIC slots and see if a higher or lower IRQ affects the ordering of the ETH settings. I've never tried to actually specify which is which, but that's how I would try to do it.
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:58, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > >If memory serves, you can't. > > > >The BIOS scans the hardware at startup and assigns such things. Maybe > >there is some setting in the BIOS you can fiddle with. > > > >You might try exchanging the cards in the motherboard. > > I usually find it easier to ping another system, swapping cables until it > works. Once they're up in a particular sequence they won't change until > something else in the hardware changes. > > Once you have them identified, marking with a Sharpe pen may help for the > next time you unplug the cables and forget which was which. > > Some NIC drivers will turn the link light off when the driver's down so > doing an ``ifdown eth0'', the seeing which lights are still on may also > work. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > ``Never do your enemy a minor injury.'' > - Machiavelli > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
