Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:10:11 +0200 | From | Markus Pfeiffer <> | Subject | Re: 2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order |
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Hi,
one of the easiest ways of fixing this problem is probably using modules and declaring eth0 and eth1 in conf.modules (or was it modules.conf ... ) ...
Markus
Florent Cueto wrote: > > I got the same problem. > The consequence was that if my eth0 card (static ip) was "ifupped" before my > eth1 card (dhcp), it became impossible to ifup my eth1 card (I could no more > obtain an ip from the dhcp server). > > ----- Message d'origine ----- > De : James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net> > À : <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Envoyé : mardi 5 septembre 2000 15:55 > Objet : 2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order > > > Hello All, > > I have a box with 2 ethernet cards. One is a ne2k-pci and one is a > > tulip. Under 2.2.X the ne card is eth0 and the tulip is eth1. > Unfortunatly > > if I boot a 2.4.X kernel, the tulip card is assigned eth0 and the ne card > > eth1, which of course breaks all my networking setup scripts. I can get > > the 2.4.X kernels to assign 2.2.X identities by using command line args > > like (from memory): > > > > ethers=eth1 > > > > but unfortunatly at least one of the cards does not work if I try this. > > I "solved" the problem by using kernel modules and an /etc/modules.conf > > file that looks like this: > > > > alias eth0 ne2k-pci > > alias eth1 tulip > > > > but I would really rather not use a modular kernel. I have no idea what I > > would do if I had two identical network cards in the computer. Is there > > a better way to solve this problem? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jim > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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