wireless on either eth1 or eth2

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> I have a Dell laptop using Dapper with both an internal wired card and
> a wireless card.  While the wired card always shows up as eth0, the
> wireless card shows up as either eth1 and eth2.  Which one of eth1 or
> eth2 it uses seems to change at nearly every reboot.
> 
> While it's not really impacting the functionally of my laptop (except
> for the gnome-network applet; I currently keeps two in my panel, one
> or eth1 and one for eth2 to be sure I always have one that works by
> default), I find this curious, and I don't remember this happening in
> Breezy or earlier in the Dapper cycle.  I also uses netapplet, which
> may or may not be related to this.  Anyone has any insight of why my
> laptop is acting that way?

While this hasn't personally happened to me, I've seen a couple of other
cases where it happened after udev upgrades.  You should be able to write a
udev rule to force it to eth1.
-- 
derek