Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

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Chris Linstid wrote:

> Hmm... on second thought, if the driver module for the on-board  
> network and the PCI NIC are the same, I'm not sure how you would  
> control the order for that.
>
>     - Chris
>
> On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Chris Linstid wrote:
>
>> Isn't the order they come up in determined by the order in which  the 
>> driver modules are loaded?  So, say you have an on-board intel  NIC 
>> and a PCI 3com in one system and an on-board intel NIC and a  PCI 
>> tulip-based card in another, if the module load order is 3com,  
>> intel, tulip they are of course going to come up in a different order.
>>
>> I think the way to fix this is to alias module names to network  
>> interface names in the module configuration files.  Something like  
>> this:
>>
>> http://www.newt.com/debian/thinkpad-t40p/#ethernet
>>
>>     - Chris
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> All our systems have multiple NICs on them.  On some systems however,
>>> Linux brings up the NICs in a different order than the BIOS orders
>>> them.  For example, the BIOS orders an on-board NIC as "the first"  and
>>> a PCI add-on card NIC as "the second".  But when Linux comes up, for
>>> some reason it swaps that order and the add-on card is seen by the OS
>>> as eth0 and the on-board NIC as eth1.
>>>
>>> I thought there was a way to force the OS to use the same ordering,
>>> but can't remember the details. Anyone have pointers to an
>>> explanation?
>>>
>>> fwiw, Debian, 2.4.3mumble, and mostly Intel ee1000 cards
>>> (a few tulips, a few 3Coms, etc.)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> -- 
>>> Seeya,
>>> Paul
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