On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Bob wrote:
Hi there,
I have a fedora 5 system with the latest updates. This machine has three
network adapters, each of which uses a different hardware driver.
When I first boot, the eth0 and eth2 interfaces are logically attached to
the wrong controllers. In /var/log/dmesg, the Realtek controller is loaded
first, and attaches to eth0 and the 3Com controller loads last and attaches
to eth2. If I stop the network service, remove the 3c59x and 8139too
modules and restart the network, things get configured correctly. Is there
a way to get things to work right when first booted?
You can try editing the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?
files and make sure the HWADDR= lines have the correct MAC address
for the interfaces you want.
If you are lazy:
http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/name_eths-0.4.tar.gz
will also ensure that the assignment is such that the LAN(s) on
Motherboard are assigned before cards and all are assigned in a consistent
order.
Steve Friedman
