Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Feb 4, 2008 5:58 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's what /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is for.  I'm assuming that
iftab is some debian abomination.


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
LlamaLand                       https://netllama.linux-sxs.org