From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 06:59:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 06:59:48 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:56670 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 06:59:27 -0400 To: ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl Cc: rhw@MemAlpha.CX (Riley Williams), mra@pobox.com (Mark Atwood), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel) Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? In-Reply-To: <200108080841.KAA26569@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 08 Aug 2001 04:52:51 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200108080841.KAA26569@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrzej Krzysztofowicz writes: > 1. NFS-root needs to have RARP/NFS servers on eth0. > How can you deal with it if you have two boards supported by a single > driver and, unfortunately, the one you need is detected as eth1 ? > Assume that you cannot switch them as they use different media type... Hmm. Then my system that does DHCP/NFS root with 2.4.7 and comes up on eth2 is doesn't work? Hmm it looks like it works to me. Eric