On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:16 -0500, Rob Miracle wrote: > I've got a Dell laptop with FC3 installed. It has a built in wired > ethernet which gets ID'd as eth0. When I plug it into the docking station, > it picks up the ethernet port there as eth1. The system uses which ever > one the cord is plugged into since it detects the cable missing from the > other. No problem so far. I've also got an SMC wireless card id'ed as > ath0. If I'm wireless, it uses ath0 like it should. However, if I plug my > wired in to eth0 (I haven't tried it with the docking station since I got > the ath drivers installed), it appears to pick up ath0 as the network card > of choice. > > Is there a way to prioritize eth0 other than pulling the wireless card out? NetworkManager is supposed to do this but can be a bit flaky and doesn't work well with all cards. Worth a try though. See: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/ Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
