Bug#442436: debian-installer: sets up firewire as eth0

[Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal


First, kudos on the graphical installer.  It went
quite smoothly.

I have an Intel G3-based motherboard with both 8169 ethernet and
firewire.  The installer offers firewire as the first choice for
network, despite the fact that I had a live ethernet connection
plugged into the ethernet jack.

After installing and booting into the new system, I found that the
ethernet port was configured as eth1 instead of eth0.

This seems counter-intuitive.  I must admit I wasn't even aware you
could do tcp-ip networking over firewire.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash