Re: [PLUG] iface detection differences between 2.4 & 2.6 kernels?

["K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>]

This is not just a 2.4 vs. 2.6 issue.  One of my laptops (Kubuntu
Dapper) does this on reboots.  Sometimes the Ethernet comes up as eth2
and the Wifi as eth3, and sometimes it's the other way around.  No
idea what happened to eth0 and eth1.  Most annoying, because they are
set up differently, and sometimes the WiFi picks up a neighbor's
unsecured access point (which broadcasts the station id) rather than
my own...

-- Bhaskar

On 9/8/06, W. Chris Shank <shankwc@acetechgroup.com> wrote:
> I just had a weird problem. I have a system with 2 ethernet cards (one intel
> e1000 on-board) and one realtek PCI running debian. If I boot the 2.4 kernel
> eth0 is the on-board intel e1000 and the realtek is eth1. If I boot the 2.6
> kernel eth0 is the realtek and eth1 is the intel.
>
> Why would this happen? Is there a way to insure that a specific adapter
> comes up with a specified designation? this could be a real problem for a
> system with  multiple cards with different networks.
>
> --
> W. Chris Shank
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