On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:30:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:55:56 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Udev is doing this. If you have removed the second card, > > > delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, otherwise edit > > > the file to switch the assignments for the two NICs. > > > > Thanks. A "new and improved helpfull feature" that could've done > > without. > > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you > have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is > better than having your private network connected to the Internet > because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order. > > IIRC: 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the modules 2) If you build the the drivers in-kernel the the order is determined by the PCI slot numbers -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
