I'm puzzled by the device /dev/eth0 , etc, chosen by different drivers. This isn't a problem for me, just a mystery. For example, I just installed Fedora-7 on a laptop (an old Sony PictureBook - C1VFK) and when I attached it by ethernet to my LAN, it immediately worked through /dev/eth0 , despite the fact that /etc/modprobe.conf had an incorrect "alias eth0 orinoco_cs", while the driver in use is pcnet_cs . By contrast, on another laptop although I have the correct "alias eth0 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modprobe.conf , a strange device - /dev/dev1375 , IIRC, was used. So my questions are: 1) How does the machine decide which driver to use; and 2) How does it decide which device to use? Has it got something to do with udev ?
