On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Dennis wrote: > With an intel 810E MB with on onboard Intel Controller, using a 1 slot > riser card with an eepro100 card in the slot, Linux detects the card in the > pci slot as eth0 and the onboard LAN controller as eth1 (clearly not what > you want).....other O/Ss properly detect the onboard controller first. This *is* what you want. And an O/S that detect the on-motherboard interface first is backwards. This is the same situation as a PCI video card. A plugged-in video card should be used in preference to the built-in one. > Is there a simple solution to this problem? Is this the eepro driver or the > OS that scans the wrong card first? There is a simple solution. Configure your adapters to match the detection order. There is *no* semantic signifcance to the "eth0" name. It is just a name. Names are used to simplify the identification. In one of our old configurations, we used the Ethernet address to look up the IP address in /etc/ethers. With this approach the interface could be name "eth0" or "fizbot23", it just didn't matter. The downside is that doing this makes configuration *much* more obscure for the common single-interface configuration. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations Annapolis MD 21403 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
