On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:21 +0000, rich wrote: > I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, > loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my > interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan > being eth0, it's now eth1 & the firewire is eth0. What defines what > eth'x' number is given to which network device? It's a pain having to > change configuration each time they move numbers (as also happens > depending on whether I boot with my wireless cardbus in the slot or > not)! I think there's a way in /etc/modules to bind an interface to a particular driver. This should help: man 5 modules -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time." Bertrand Meyer
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