network card not detected at boot

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon Oct 16 19:54:52 PDT 2006


On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:57:16PM -0500, 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.

I believe Net Llama is correct.

Kurt
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