Hi all, Can someone explain to me what controls the assignment of ethernet cards to device numbers?
My ethernet has always been eth0, until recently. After installing and configuring another card (more on that later), that other card (a firewire card, for which eth1394 ended up getting loaded) became eth0 and my real ethernet card became eth1. But the system was still trying to access the internet over eth0, which cut me off from the world. I managed to use harddrake2 to reconfigure so that I got internet access back via eth1. But even after eliminating the loading of the eth1394 module, my ethernet card is still eth1, and I can't get it to go back to being eth0. There's a line in my /etc/modprobe.conf like this: alias eth0 via-rhine This somehow got changed to eth1, but editing it back to eth0 doesn't fix it. What I want is some way to lock my ethernet card to always and forever be eth0, so that adding other cards won't break my system. Anyone know how to do this? Any hints at all about how to fix this? Or about how these numbers are even assigned. Oh, I'm on 2006. Ron -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
