network card not detected at boot

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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).

On Ubuntu and Debian and some others (or so I'm told) it's determined by 
/etc/iftab. Here's mine:

/etc $ cat iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.  See iftab(5).
eth0 mac 00:c0:f0:59:c4:72
eth1 mac 00:50:ba:8f:f1:17
eth2 mac 00:60:08:bf:4b:f2

Michael