network card not detected at boot

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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).

Well sure, but each one gets its own unique PCI bus ID (/proc/pci).

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