eth0 / eth1 woes

Matje · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:10 am Post subject: eth0 / eth1 woes

For my remote booting setup, I have a client with an ISA and a PCI network card in it. My kernel however first finds the ISA card and names it eth0. Then it finds my PCI card and names it eth1. This is not the way I like it, because I need the PCI card to be eth0. I tried putting a ether=... parameter, but that didn't work, and it actually isn't an option either, because it needs to be universal for all the clients. It just needs to load PCI network cards before ISA cards. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Compiling ISA cards as modules is an option yes, I know, but I'd like everything compiled into the kernel (again, to make sure it works on each client, staying away from modprobe problems...)
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bazik · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject:

Compile the Network drivers as modules and put them in /etc/modules.autoload

The first loaded module gets eth0, the 2nd eth1

Matje · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:57 pm Post subject:

As I allready said, this is rather impossible to do. Every client I have has different isa/pci NIC combinations, and they all need to work with 1 script
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bazik · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

Matje · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject:

I gave up, compiled the ISA as a module and load it at boot time. Though luck if it isn't there

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