Matthew Saltzman wrote: > ... > So here's what I did (a solution I happened on a few months back when I > was thinking about forcing the assignment of NICs to devices for other > reasons). > > Check /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the original assignnment. In my case, > that was e1000 to eth0 and ipw2200 to eth1. Add the following lines > (aliases as appropriate for your drivers): > > alias eth0 e1000 > alias eth1 ipw2200 in my case I noticed that my modprobe.conf contained the wrong assignments with eth0 and eth1 switched around after an upgrade FC3->FC5 and networking didn't work because the ifcfg-eth? files still assumed the old (correct) assignment. I don't know who put that info there, whether it happened during the upgrade, or later during a reboot. > install ipw2200 /sbin/modprobe -q eth0; /sbin/modprobe > --ignore-install ipw2200 > > The last line has the effect of forcing the eth0 module to load before the > ipw2200 module. Thus the ipw2200 module is always eth1. good to know, nice trick! Roman -- The most aptly named computer book: "Windows for Dummies"
