reassign 286552 discover retitle 286552 NIC order change breaks interfaces file thanks
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:05 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 > Version: 2.6.8-10 > Severity: important > > Greetings, > > Upgrading from -9 to -10 has rendered the built-in rhine network adapter > on my VIA EPIA-based machine completely unusable. Rebooting into 2.4.27 > works just fine; booting back into 2.6.8 it becomes unusable again. It turns out that this is a problem in discover: more recent versions reorder modules such that via-rhine comes after ieee1394 networking, making it eth1 instead of eth0, but all that the user sees is that networking no longer works. An even more recent discover upgrade fixes this on the VIA machine, but it is still broken on a laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook P2120), where the rtl8139-compatible NIC comes third after orinoco_pci (wireless) and firewire. I consider this breakage because it requires /etc/network/interfaces to be rewritten for the different eth numbers under different kernels (2.4 without firewire and orinoco puts the wired NIC at eth0, 2.6 puts it at eth2), particularly with static addresses. A consistent order with say all of the hard-wired NICs first, wireless second, and firewire last would clear this up. Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html
