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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A return to PCI ordering problems...
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:27:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2048.1006291657@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120190316.H19738@vnl.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011120190316.H19738@vnl.com>


amon@vnl.com said:
> In any case, here is the problem:
> 	NIC on motherboard, Realtek
> 	NIC on PCI card, Realtek
> 	Monolithic (no-module) kernel
> 	Motherboard must be set to eth0 

Why must the motherboard be set to eth0? Why not just configure it as it 
gets detected?

If you really care about the names, there's an ioctl you can use to change 
them. You can call them 'fred' and 'sheila' if you so desire.


--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-20 19:03 A return to PCI ordering problems Dale Amon
2001-11-20 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 19:51   ` Tim Hockin
2001-11-20 20:13   ` Faux Pas III
2001-11-20 21:20   ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 21:58     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 21:49   ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-20 22:02     ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 22:04       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 21:27 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-11-20 21:47   ` Dale Amon
2001-11-21  9:27     ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 12:52     ` Christer Weinigel
2001-11-21  8:57   ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-21  9:20     ` Alan Cox
2001-11-21 11:29     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-21 11:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-21 12:10         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-21 13:51       ` James A Sutherland

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