Is there a way to assign a specific module to eth devices in the ip link table? On my laptop, something is calling "ip link" or its equivalent when the busses are scanned for my wireless card (pcmcia) and docking station ethernet (PCI). The problem is that when I boot docked the PCI buss is scanned first so the ethernet driver gets assigned eth0, while when booted standalone the wireless gets eth0 because there's no PCI buss. RedHat's network package requires device aliases in /etc/modules.conf, so half the time networking fails due to mismatched cards and devices. I've hacked this by rmmod'ing both drivers after buss scanning and before pcmcia is loaded, so that ifup reloads them in the right order. Is there a better way to enforce which card/driver gets assigned to eth0? Perhaps a way to suppress a module from being loaded when its bus is being scanned? Or a way for network drivers to not be installed in the ip link table when loaded? Tom -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
