Broadcom tg3 problem (info - not question)

[rbr28]

Just wanted to post this for others who run into a similar problem. On some livecd's I have had a problem with the tg3 driver picking up my onboard ethernet card as eth1 (I only have 1 NIC so it should be eth0. It's easy not to notice this if you are on a laptop and don't have the buffer to view things that fly buy during boot. If you have this problem, just simply copy /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to net.eth1 in the same folder and modify /etc/conf.d/net so that you substitute eth1 for eth0 on the appropriate line. Then do /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start to start the proper interface. I didn't have to modprobe tg3 since it did load properly on boot.

[flickerfly]

Good tip, best practice 4 creating eth1 is to make a link...