Re: A return to PCI ordering problems...

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:27:37 +0000


amon@vnl.com said:
> In any case, here is the problem:
> NIC on motherboard, Realtek
> NIC on PCI card, Realtek
> Monolithic (no-module) kernel
> Motherboard must be set to eth0

Why must the motherboard be set to eth0? Why not just configure it as it
gets detected?

If you really care about the names, there's an ioctl you can use to change
them. You can call them 'fred' and 'sheila' if you so desire.

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dwmw2

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