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Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu



On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:03:32PM +0000, Tim Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 00:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>  
>   Burned and booted ... here's what I saw when I started the install:
>   Debian tells me the following:
>   "Primary Network Interface:
>    eth0: firewire (IEEE 1394) ethernet device
>    eth1: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4353
>    "
>    Gadzooks! This differs from what the current kubuntu 7.04 installation
>    is telling me. Ubuntu tells me that my network interface is at 
>    eth0 (from the systems-> menu) and somehow I got the impression
>    that this was the device picked up by lspci as
>    "03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 
> 4353 (rev 14)"
 

For some reason that I don't know about, the kernel (or udev?) thinks
that firewire is a network interface.  When the installer asks you which
device to use, I'd pick eth1.

Doug.



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