On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:33:03AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 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. Actually: tcp/ip over firewire is not unheard of. And quite well supported as far as I know (although for those who care: apparently no longer supported in MS Vista ?) -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Gnagloot, n.: A person who leaves all his ski passes on his jacket just to impress people. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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