Hi -boot, Currently there are three bugs against netcfg that complain that if one has two Ethernet cards plugged in, we can't distinguish between them by name: they show up simply as Ethernet or Fast Ethernet (or Wireless Device (802.11x) if it's in /proc/net/wireless) and if you have multiple ones, determining which one is the one your ethernet cable is plugged into is a guess and check kind of task. Is it possible to do something in the hardware detection stage that will have a database of module filenames and the devices they provide drivers for (modules that provide a 'common' kind of support for many similar devices notwithstanding), and store a new ifname (from looking at /proc/net/dev before and after a prospective call to modprobe) with the device the module drives into a file that can later be easily parsed by netcfg? For example, discover (or whatever) considers 8139too module snapshot of /proc/net/dev is made 8139too is loaded if it didn't load correctly, bail snapshot of /proc/net/dev is made and compared to old one for new device new device is 'eth0' write 'eth0:Realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet' to /etc/network/devnames continue This would be really nice to have, but is it possible? I'm wondering where to add the hook, it probably has to be made in discover, though. CC me on replies to this thread; I only read -boot rather infrequently from Gmane. Thanks! -- Joshua Kwan
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