Hi, I performed an upgrade from FC2 to FC3, and have subsequently run into an issue with the naming of my network cards. I have two network cards, one that connects to a hub on my internal network and the other connecting to a DSL modem. The network card attached to the DSL modem is being given a strange name (e.g. "dev8680" although the number changes on every reboot) rather than the persistent name of eth0 as it was under FC2. This is a problem because I have to reconfigure the DSL setup on every reboot as the hardware name changes. Here's what I've found so far... In /var/log/dmesg: eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x1820, IRQ 9, 00:50:BA:A7:61:8E. eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1400, 00:05:5d:d5:21:d6, IRQ 10 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Interestingly eth1 and eth0 are swapped from the names I used under FC2. In the Network Configuration GUI tool I see the following hardware listed: Network Configuration has this under Hardware: Description: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Device: dev8680 Status: OK Description: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet Device: eth1 Status: OK Description: PCI NE2000 clones Device: eth0 Status: configured In /etc/sysconfig/hwconf I see two NETWORK entries - both with the *same* device name: class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth1 driver: ne2k-pci desc: "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)" network.hwaddr: 00:50:BA:A7:61:8E vendorId: 10ec deviceId: 8029 subVendorId: 1186 subDeviceId: 0300 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 10 pcifn: 0 - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth1 driver: 8139too desc: "D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet" network.hwaddr: 00:05:5D:D5:21:D6 vendorId: 1186 deviceId: 1300 subVendorId: 1186 subDeviceId: 1301 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: f pcifn: 0 Finally some process (I'm not sure what) is add lines similar to "alias dev8680 ne2k-pci" to my /etc/modprobe.conf. Has anyone any suggestions as to why this happening and more importantly, how I can fix it? Colin.
