Re: Recommended NIC module

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Mathias put forth on 1/10/2010 1:25 PM:

> Yesterday I
> complied my own kernel so now I'm doing the finishing touches on the
> system.

If you're compiling your own kernels, add the e100 driver into the kernel
instead of as a module.  I've got an 82558 and 82559 in the same machine and
both work great without problems using the e100 kernel driver.

Also, you mentioned etho and eth1 being bumped around.  Udev did this to me with
the same two eth cards mentioned above when I moved one of them to a different
PCI slot.  I then researched the problem and had to create a udev rule to always
name the 82559 as eth0 and 82558 as eth1.  I'm guessing something similar
happened to you when you first noticed problems.  This isn't a problem with the
ethernet drivers but is a problem with udev.

--
Stan