[ale] eth0 vs eth1

[Jim]

Are you by any chance running a dual-boot machine with Windows? If so,
you might want to get familiar with setserial and isapnptools. At any
rate, run setserial with no aerguments and pipe the output to less. This
will show you where it thinks all the devices are. I used to have to
change the port for my modem on bootup.

"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> 
> Here's a weird one. I have a 3com NIC in my linux server/masq box. Working
> fine. I added a second NIC (tried smc-ultra and rtl8139) and no matter how I
> configure conf.modules, the 3com NIC always comes up as eth0. I wanted it to
> stay connected to my internal lan and the cheapy card to be connected to the
> cable-modem to be installed tomorrow, oops, today. Is this tuesday? All of the
> NICs work fine, I just can not get the 3com one to be eth1. Any ideas? For now
> I will connect it to the cable modem and the rtl8139 to my internal 100mbit
> lan.
> 
> - Gary
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