On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:10:31AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote : > > Network device ordering has never been guaranteed nor stable. It depends > on things like link order, module load ordering, or on async probe > busses like firewire or USB can depend on the phase of the moon. > > The bug is to assume it can be relied upon in the first place. I know > it's annoying but that's how it is.
Hi everybody, just to say that this swapping can be very difficult to diagnose to the basic user. Coming from the i386 world, I would only expect this to happen with two similar interfaces. I installed a debian (testing) on my iMac G5 yesterday (only one eth physical inteface), and if this thread had not been started, I would still be trying to figure out why the eth0 used by debian-installer was unable to find its IP adress by dhcp after rebooting in the new system... So somehow, this problem must be tackled in some way, otherwise I guess that there will be a lot of "the installer does not work" reports... By the way, what is this second eth interface on iMac G5? The broadcom card ? -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
