Re: Network device name changed-fedora4..network in mess..

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/17/05

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:36:19 -0400

    On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 09:13 +0900, Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
    > Hi..
    > I installed fedora4 this tuesday on my dell latitude d600...i configured
    > for wireless( i have intell 2100) and it was up and running. but once i
    > rebooted my machine, it did not work. i opened the network
    > configuration(system-config-network) and under the hardware tab i saw
    > that the system had swapped my device names( it was now eth0 for
    > wireless and eth1 for ethernet)

    AFAIK, this is really a kernel issue. The kernel assigns network device
    names in the order it encounters the devices, and from time to time
    (usually after an upgrade), it encounters them in a different order than
    usual.

    The workaround I use is to configure /etc/modprobe.conf to make sure
    that when one driver gets loaded (the one I want to be eth1), it first
    loads the other driver (the one I want to be eth0):

    alias eth1 orinoco_cs
    alias eth0 e100
    # Force eth0 to get loaded before orinoco_cs, to make sure
    # the network devices get the right names
    #
    install orinoco_cs /sbin/modprobe -q eth0; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install orinoco_cs

    Hope this helps. 

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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@tarnation.dyndns.org>
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