Building a PC Isn't Hard

[David A. Bandel]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:26 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Here and I was thinking it's some kind of RPM abomination, because I
have no such file in any Debian system.

David A. Bandel
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