On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 09:13 +0900, Saurabh Siddharth wrote: > Hi.. > I installed fedora4 this tuesday on my dell latitude d600...i configured > for wireless( i have intell 2100) and it was up and running. but once i > rebooted my machine, it did not work. i opened the network > configuration(system-config-network) and under the hardware tab i saw > that the system had swapped my device names( it was now eth0 for > wireless and eth1 for ethernet) AFAIK, this is really a kernel issue. The kernel assigns network device names in the order it encounters the devices, and from time to time (usually after an upgrade), it encounters them in a different order than usual. The workaround I use is to configure /etc/modprobe.conf to make sure that when one driver gets loaded (the one I want to be eth1), it first loads the other driver (the one I want to be eth0): alias eth1 orinoco_cs alias eth0 e100 # Force eth0 to get loaded before orinoco_cs, to make sure # the network devices get the right names # install orinoco_cs /sbin/modprobe -q eth0; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install orinoco_cs Hope this helps. -- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
