Changing my network, or at least - preparing to.
Formerly I had 3 ethernet devices - as seen by Fedora:
eth0: onboard 3Com nic (a7n8x deluxe) eth1: pci card, linksys generic eth2: onboard forcedepth nvidia nic (did not use)
eth1 is what was attached to my DSL modem (since it was the only nic Win XP knew what to do with after a bare install w/o board driver disc)
eth0 goes to a hub which has my iMac and a LaserJet 4 attached
My plan was remove the pci ethernet card (eth0) and until I have the wireless router set up, use the forcedepth nic for my PPPoE.
I moved the ethernet cable and used the network control panel to change the PPPoE to eth2. Restarted network - it was good, I could ping yahoo.
I removed the pci card that was eth1 and installed an Atheros wireless card (AT&T P&S 6500G). I have the madwifi drivers installed.
kudzu deleted the pci card, I told to ignore the wireless card, as from fedora user list archive, that is what I'm suppose to do. Kudzu did correctly enter the wireless card into /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
I'm not sure why, but for the life of me, I could not get it to use the forcedepth card for the dsl - even though it had worked when I had switched it before doing the hardware change.
Looked in the /etc/modprobe.conf - the reference to forcedepth as eth2 was still there, and an additional reference to forcedepth as eth1 was also there - at the end of the file, as if kudzu had just put it there.
Looked in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf - and the foredepth card was only there as eth2. There was no eth1 (and shouldn't have been).
Manually altered /etc/sysconfig/hwconf to make the forcedepth card be eth1 there, deleted /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 - and rebooted, changed the PPPoE device to use eth1, everything worked fine then.
I don't know if this is a kudzu bug or a quirk or what, but it seems that when the Linksys card that was eth1 was removed by kudzu, that since there now was no eth1 anymore, that gave a problem and eth2 could not be used to bring up PPPoE - so eth2 *should* have been migrated to eth1 in both /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts - which is effectively what I manually did.
Unfortunately it would a real PITA to try and duplicate this.
-- Michael A. Peters http://mpeters.us/
