Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Michael Hipp]

vu pham wrote:
> kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> [...]
>> 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.

You guys need to use a proper distro with an /etc/iftab file.

Linux is about having choices, like being able to choose which eth my 
nic lands on.

:-P

Michael