2004. július 14. 11:39, John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org: > John van Spaandonk wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > >>Any last words before I > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > >>on my home (sid) PC? > >> > >>Will things break that used to work in 2.4? > > > >I still stick with 2.4 for the following reason. > > > >I use two ethernet cards: > >eth0 is connected to the cable modem (it has to be this > >particular card because of the MAC address) > >eth1 is my home network > >2.6 reverses the names eth0 and eth1 > >Apparently the PCI scanning order > >changed - right, why keep something the same if you can change it? > > :-) > > > >So for me it will not be possible to simply install 2.6 > >next to a 2.4 kernel. Each time I will have to manually > >reverse the cards in the computer. > > > >In addition, booting 2.6 lost me some modules which I had to insert > >manually before 2.4 would work again. I do not exactly remember, but > > I think it was a usb module. > > > >So for me it is difficult to try out 2.6 because of these changes. > > > >I guess if I have a good solution for the eth0 eth1 problem I > >will try and move towards 2.6. > > If your NICs use different drivers, use alias to load them: > alias eth0 3c59x > alias eth1 ee100 > For more info: > man modprobe.conf BTW anyone knows how to "emulate" the old modutils "post-install" command behaviour in modprobe? I need to execute a script after I've loaded a module, but the man modprobe only gives me an "install" command, which executes the script *before* the module loading. Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA
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