Timothy Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've read the Ethernet howto, and it states that linux assigns eth0
>to the first network card it finds, and eth1 to the second. The problem
>is I need what RH says is eth0 to be eth1 and eth1 to be eth0. I have
>two PCI nics; one 10mB/s and one 100mB/s. It is this that makes me need
>them in a particular order.
>
> I'm using RoadRunner, and it will only assign a DHCP address to
>eth0; I can't change that - at least that's what the docs say.
>
> I assume I could change the I/O address to make the 10mB/s first (it
>already has a lower IRQ), but I'm not sure how to do that, because the
>Ehternet howto states this is assigned by the BIOS.
I *think* that for PCI cards, resources are assigned by the BIOS starting
with the highest PCI slot # and working down. Therefore, a network card in
PCI slot 6 should be recognized by Linux before a network card in PCI slot
5 and so on. Try switching the physical order of your network cards and
see if that helps. Barring that, your BIOS may be able to reserve
resources for PCI devices in which case you may be able to force it to
assign a specific I/O & IRQ to the 10Mbps card.
-Eric
Eric Sisler
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Westminster Public Library
Westminster, CO, USA
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