Hello Peter, Makes sense. Certainly on OSX, firewire ports are included in the list of network interfaces. I have never put Debian onto anything more modern than a Beige G3. Since these don't have firewire, all my installs have shown the built in ethernet port to be eth0 and additional PCI ethernet cards as eth1, etc.
I guess I should start using more uptodate hardware ;-) Nick. ***************************************************** Dr. N.R. Helps Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences MSI/WTB/JBC Complex University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland t: 44 (0)1382 384745 (office) t: 44 (0)1382 388019 (lab) f: 44 (0)1382 388729 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.dnaseq.co.uk/ w: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/mrcppu/ **************************************************** >>> Peter Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/17/08 9:11 AM >>> Dear Nicholas, This happens on some of my machine also, (in particular, an iBook G4 and a Blue & White G3) I recall from reading some messages at boot time text that the firewire port gets called eth0. Peter ( Rooney ) Nicholas Helps wrote: [ snip ] > I am also wondering why on a standard PPC computer your default network port > is eth1. Normally, if you only have one port (do you have more than one? Are they/it plugged into anything?), it would be eth0... [ snip ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian- powerpc- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
