ETH Interface names

[Jan Kokoska]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:19 -0300, limaunion wrote:
> Jan Kokoska wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:11 -0300, limaunion wrote:
> >>I'm having a very simple problem, my workstation has two network 
> >>interfaces (forcedeth & ne2k-pci drivers), under FC1 eth0=ne2k-pci and 
> >>eth1=forcedeath (actually I use the nvnet driver in FC1), but under 
> >>Ubuntu it's the opposite (eth0=forcedeth & eth1=ne2k-pci); I want to 
> >>revert this and keep the FC naming, any suggestions/comments ? Why does 
> >>this happens ? Another thing is that if I don't see eth0 from GNOME's 
> > 
> > 
> > Order of loading of driver modules. You can specify it directly
> > in /etc/modules or use logical names based on MAC address. You would
> > most likely need a script for this, see "man interfaces".
> > Editing /etc/modules is definitely the easier way around.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> 
> Jan, thanks for the tip! it's working now as desired! (eth0=ne2k-pci).
> I'm having another problem, my forcedeth card (eth1) isn't initialized
> while booting the kernel, shouldn't be loaded automatically ? manually
> works; maybe you or someone else can help me again :)

Well just add it to /etc/modules (as per last message)? I meant putting
both drivers in that file in your desider order. This should work.

Regards,
Jan