network card not detected at boot

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Oct 16 18:22:00 PDT 2006


On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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

The assignment can be controlled like that (its also possible in RH/FC). 
However, without the mac address association, I think its determined by 
the PCI bus ID.

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