On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Marcelo Camperi wrote:
> Thank you to those who responded so far to my message
>
> ABrady wrote:
>
> >It usually helps to start out with what type of NIC you have trouble
> >with. OK, it's internal. Who made it? What's the model? What kind of
> >driver does it use? What IRQ and/or IO settings does it have? Most or
>
> It is an Actiontec 82559-based MiniPCI ethernet adapter. WIn2K says it
> uses Interrupt Request 11...
>
> Before buying the laptop, I checked in linux-laptop.net, and a number of
> other users seemed to be saying that the MiniPCI worked for them out of
> the Sealwolf box.
>
>
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> >It very well may be that when you're *not* in the docking station,
> >you don't have an eth0 device. Since ethernet devices are assigned
> >in-order (i.e., eth0, then eth1, then eth2), you can't have an
> >eth1 if you don't have an eth0.
>
> Interesting! But if this is so, how could I fix it? Would just renaming
> eth0 --> eth1 and eth1 --> eth0 work? How could this be done in safe way?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Marcelo
>
>
If you are going to swap them, (Probably a good idea...), then you will
need to exit 3 files, and rename 2 of them.
/etc/modules.conf - swap the aliases for eth0 and eth1.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 - you will
want to rename these files, and change the "DEVICE=ethx" lines to
reflect the new names. When renaming the files, be sure to use the
3 step procedure.
mv ifcfg-eth0 eth-tmp
mv ifcfg-eth1 ifcfg-eth0
mv eth-tmp ifcfg-eth1
If it were not for the issue of getting the correct modules loaded, you
could just edit the ifcfg-eth1 file to use "DEVICE=eth0". This is what
I do on my notebook to have more then one ethernet config using the same
device.
Mikkel
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