When I attached my laptop with ethernet to an ADSL modem on my travels it chose to use dev10788 as device; I've no idea where it got this name from. I tried to persuade it to use eth0, eth1 or eth2 without success. So it seemed simplest to fit in with its desire, and I added an entry /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-dev10788 , and added "alias dev10788 e100" to /etc/modprobe.conf . This has worked perfectly for several days. I've noticed before that computers often seem to insist on using a particular device, without any particular reason as far as I can see. Eg a WiFi card might work as eth1 but not as eth0, no matter how hard one tries to persuade it. Can some guru explain this to me, please? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Tridev10788nity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
