network card not detected at boot

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>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.

That may well be (although on this main board, both of the NICs
are on the board -- is that in the PCI bus).

Bill
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