That won't work for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100), because only my wifi pcmcia nic card is built-in -- the 3c59x card is in the docking station. Still, what you suggest should work for many other laptops. Tom On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 09:42, Brian Johnson wrote: > I use alias eth0 3c59x in /etc/modules.conf to force my laptop builtin nic to be > eth0 even when not connected to the LAN > > That way any pcmcia nic cards (including my wifi) come up starting at eth1 > > > > Tom Ball (Tom.Ball@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Brian Johnson > * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) * > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
