network card not detected at boot

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:40:52PM -0700, 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).

Sure, but they still have their own unique bus ID, whether they are
add-on cards or soldered onto the board.

K
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