Building a PC Isn't Hard

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kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
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> I've got a similar GigE NIC:
> 
> Driver: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
> NIC: RTL8168b/8111b
> 
> Perversely, it loads at eth0, but gets configured at eth2. No, there
> are no other NICs in the machine. Not sure if it's a driver problem
> or a configuration problem in the OS.

Here is what I have in my notebook's dmesg:

eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95755m) rev a002 PHY(5755)] (PCI Express) 
10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:1c:23:95:99:6c
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
net eth2: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth2


and it ends up using eth2 after boot. Don't know why the kernel changed 
it from eth0 to eth2. The system does have a Dell 1505 Draft 802.11n but 
it is never detected.

Vu