Re: forcedeth ?

david
2007-07-30T22:25:23Z

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On 7/31/07, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/31/07, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>> Gabriel, hmm, shouldnt udev be able to autoconfigure that ? But I need
>> to check that, thx for the tip.
>
> Udev does that already, it automatically creates rules and assigns
> persistent names to newly discovered network hardware. The names will
> be stable across reboots, regardless of module loading order or
> anything else. But sure, that's only on distros who take these issues
> serious. :)

what do I need to do to disable this 'feature' having a box with
interfaces eth0, eth9, eth10 becouse the box once had a couple of quad
cards in it is annoying.

David Lang