Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Feb 4, 2008 7:35 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>
> Lonni J Friedman 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.
>
> I wouldn't know, I run Ubuntu! Hehehehe.

same debian abomination

>
> But it sounds like our friends above are so disadvantaged they are
> forced to run some third-string wannabe that can't even keep it's ducks,
> er eths, in a row. Maybe we should take up a collection to buy them a
> CD-R with a decent distro on it.

or their motherboards suck


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