network card not detected at boot

[Mike Reinehr]

On Monday 16 October 2006 18:54, 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
>
> Michael

There doesn't appear to be an /etc/iftab on any of my Debian systems. I 
haven't done an exhaustive search, but my Sarge servers don't have one. A 
brand new Etch desktop doesn't have one. Nor does my aging PC that's been 
upgraded to/from various Debian flavors over the years.

cmr
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