Re: forcedeth ?

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/30/07, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi people,
>>>
>>> I'm using this on a x86-64 amd machine. During boot of the last
>>> 2.6.22.1 kernel I get this error:
>> Somewhat unrelated, but I had a similar forcedeth problem, I took the
>> latest git forcedeth.c and put it into 2.6.22.1 and it worked for me.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> --
>> avuton
> 
> Ok, maybe I can try that. In any case I noticed another strange thing.
> I have 2 nics in that machine.
> One is a nvidia MPC61 using the forcedeth.c the other one is a Realtec
> RTL8029 using the
> ne2k_pci.
> Now, whenever I compile them both as modules each reboot the cards get
> inversed eth assignement. Suppose first boot, the forcedeth is eth0 ,
> the next boot it is eth1 , this is very anoying as one cant make only
> one boot, probably this is someway related to the bios.
> Now I configured them one in the kernel and the other as a module so
> they get each time assigned the same name. But when powerloss happens
> (unplug the cable) the next boot they do not work. I see them assigned
> the correct name, ifconfig shows the IP's but ping results in a
> destination unreachable.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Udev rules ?

> 
> Rgds
> Sasa

Gabriel