network card not detected at boot

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Oct 16 13:57:16 PDT 2006


On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I did an autoyast install on mine with ``insmod forcedeth'' in
> the ``info'' file because I knew that was going to be found while
> I wasn't positive about finding the Marvell driver.  Once I had
> the system installed, it assigned eth0 to the Marvell driver, and
> eth1 to the nVidia.  My SWAG (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess) is
> that the order eth0/1 is determined by the MAC address of the NICs.

I always thought it was the PCI bus ID ordering.

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