Re: Installation disks should be using 2.6.10 kernel

[seb@frankengul.org]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:46:12PM -0500, Per Bojsen wrote:
> *** Regarding Installation disks should be using 2.6.10 kernel;
>     seb@frankengul.org adds:
> 
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> 
> Later, once the system was installed I still had the issue with the
> firewire ports being detected before the Ethernet port and DHCP always
> running on eth0.  I could change that to eth2 but next thing I new the
> interfaces got detected in a different order and eth0 was now the
> Ethernet port.  This probably changed as a result to upgrading
> packages or possibly when switching kernel versions.  I am not really
> sure.  I ended up disabling the eth1394 module in the kernel
> configuration so that I now only have eth0 and it is always the
> Ethernet port.  This was the easiest workaround for me as I have no
> 1394 network and do not plan to have one.
> 
> However, out of curiosity, I'd still like to know how to set things up
> so that eth0 is always the Ethernet port and eth1/eth2 are always the
> Ethernet over firewire ports.

This one is easy.
In the modprobe.conf put the following line:

alias eth0 forcedeth
alias eth1 eth1394
alias eth2 eth1394

It will prevent the firewire from taking the eth0 and force the nforce
driver to be at the eth0.

Hopes this helps.

	Seb