On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:26 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > They vary based on the PCI bus layout, kernel version and a bunch of > > other things. > > > As far as the board layout goes, I always make a point to figure out > which is the first slot, so whether it's at the top or bottom doesn't > really matter. However, my assumption always was that the kernel would > scan the bus starting at the first slot and number devices accordingly. > I haven't had the same type of switcharoo that you have happened to you > (maybe that's a good thing) so maybe that's why I assumed it's always > the same. From what you're telling me, it sounds like that's not the > case. So much for consistency...I thought Winblows was the only one > with that problem... Nope. And here's a real fun one...the Dell 1850/1950 series and the Dell 2850/2950 scan backwards. On the 1850/1950, NICs in the PCI bus are enumerated BEFORE the ones on the motherboard. On the 2850/2950, the motherboard-based ones are first. "Hell, if it was easy, EVERYONE'd be doing it!" Fun, fun, fun! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
