network card not detected at boot

[Michael Hipp]

Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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
>>
> 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.

Hmm. Mine's right there in /etc. It's on all the Ubuntu boxes and I read 
that Debian was the same. Guess it was wrong.

Anyway, I find it handy in case I want my eth's ordered just so.

Michael