Tom, have you tried making the appropriate translation to the
modules.conf entry to use it with grub or lilo booting? You can
probably make this into a kernel option that will preload, if
you have a proper initrd image.
Otherwise your method is what I would use. It's "cheap and effective."
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ball" <Tom.Ball@xxxxxxx>
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:22, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Brian Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > I guess I shouldn't really care but .. try
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
> > >
> > >
> > >
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2002-December/msg01137.html
> >
> > ok, this stuff works (during boot) - as long as the eth0 aliased card
> > is always present on the machine. (either pci or pcmcia can be
> > assigned eth0)
> >
> > But if eth0 alised card is not present, then other card gets eth0
> > (instead of eth1)
> >
> > I guess this fix will work for the orginal problem posted - where the
> > fixed card is pcmcia wireless (eth0) - and the variable one is eth1
> > (pci - docking station)
>
> That fix, and the others mentioned, work great as long as: you don't
> change your hardware (such as undock your laptop), or you don't reboot.
> :-(
>
> The problem I found is that *before* any rc.5 services get run (boot in
> single mode), the buss probing caused both ethernet cards to install
> drivers and ip link entries for eth0 and eth1. The order is dependent
> on which bus gets probed first: when docked, the dock's PCI is read
> before the laptop's internal pcmcia. It doesn't matter what aliases
> there are in modules.conf.
>
> Anyway, for those with a similar problem, the hack that works for me is
> to run a small script before S22pcmcia which rmmod's the two drivers
> (they get re-installed by ifup). I was just hoping someone knew of a
> more correct way to handle this problem.
>
> Thanks everyone for your time and interest.
>
> Tom
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