Bug#361936: linux-source-2.6.16: inconsistent device detetion: eth0<=>eth1

[josh <jbuhl_nospam@gmx.de>]

Hi Jonas,

thanks for your reply.

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> My guess is that this is due to your use of initramfs-tools for ramdisk
> generation, which uses udev to coldplug devices, which I suspect cannot

hmmm. good theory. didn't think of that.

> (and should not, I believe) guarantee a specific module load order.

well, since the /etc/network/interfaces configuration specifies devices
by their devices numbers, i.e. "eth0", "eth1", then this is general
problem if these names aren't consistent by default.

> 
> I believe you can simply add 8193too and ne2k (or whatever the modules
> needed are) explicitly to /etc/modules in your preferred order.

they already are, so that doesn't work.


> 
> Alternatively (but that does *not* make autoloading become reliable,
> but allows you to avoid udev altogether) you can use the alternative
> ramdisk generator yaird instead.

I got a reply from the kernel list that you can use udev rules to assign
a device name to a device via it's mac-address:

http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-iface

so that seems to be the work-around of choice.


-j