airport isn't (yet) auto-detected by hotplug (soon). When that will happen, your airport driver will also be automagically loaded and there is no way to know which one will end up eth0 and which one will end up eth1.
this is a good argument for bsd style network interfaces /dev/vr0 /dev/fxp0 /dev/fxp1 etc ive always been a big fan of that convention, as the whole ethX randomness drives me nuts. mind you, im not sure how the linux world would feel about suddenly changing. i believe scsi has (had?) similar problems that dev's where handed out in order unlike ide, where they are linked to a certain 'interface' anyway assuming the powers that be decided to go with bsd style interfaces, you could just sym link them or create second device entries with the same major and minor numebrs perhaps ben could push through bsd style nic dev file naming ;) Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: dean@bong.com.au or djzort@bong.com.au ICQ: 16867613