On Wed 05 Sep 2007, Andy Green wrote: > > 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. > AIUI the driver gets to choose the base part of the device name, like > "eth" or "wlan". It then tacks on a number that depends on how many > network interfaces already exist using the same basename. > > So in the eth1 case you mention, no doubt your wired ethernet adapater > already owned eth0... note interfaces don't show in > > ifconfig > > unless they are up. > > ifconfig -a > > will show you all the devices that actually exist whether they are up or > not. So I guess that is why you couldn't convince the wlan device to > use eth0. Thanks for the info. But I am surprised that setting something like "alias eth0 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modprobe.conf is not enough to persuade the laptop to use eth0 for this card, even after re-booting?
