Hi,

I'm just updating this thread to post useful information.

I was unable to use ifrename to do the trick ...

I have upgraded the server to slackware 12, since the disk mirroring was 
incomplete when slackware 12 was released, so I decided to rebuild the 
raid array and install slackware 12 on it :)

Tuning the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/75-network-devices.rules" as needed 
seems to solve the problem.
I encourage everyone who uses slackware as you system to upgrade to v12 :)

Although I think samba 3.0.25b needs some "monitoring", got some strange 
behavior from this version, downgrading brought everything back in place.

Thanks for all your help,

Mauricio

Mauricio Silveira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm here asking for solutions for the Damned "Ethernet device 
> enumeration" problem!
>
> I have a P5b Mobo for my office server, it has 2 integrated NICs, but 
> the order for eth0/eth1 changes at each boot! It's getting me mad!
>
>
> I'm using slackware 11.0, kernel 2.6.21.3.
>
> I know Suse and RHEL has a solution, but it integrates too many things 
> to get it working under slackware.
>
> Any "easy"(not with so many dependencies) way?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mauricio