Hi Bdale,The bug 238979 has been open for a while now, with last communication to the bug recorded over two years ago. If you're still experiencing problems (firewire modules getting loaded by hotplug/udev before the nic modules and thus taking over eth0) with any of the recent kernels, please post an update so that we can look into it.
Best regards, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC