On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:56:11 -0500 "Jeffrey Smelser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to switch my last redhat machine to gentoo. I have been > kicking it around for a long time and finally going to do it. > > I have two eithernet cards on it, I know how to change conf.d/net and > making two net.eth1/0. Here is were I am having trouble. How does it > know which card I am refering to? How does eth0 going to know I want > ethernet card a, over b.. I can't find where to put that. autoload > would just load the two modules.. > > Redhat, for those who don't know, you reference with aliases, so eth0 > would = smc-ultra and you reference eth0 at that point. Where is this > in gentoo? > In my experience, the card that is seen first when probing the bus will be eth0. In the machines that I have dealt with, this generally means that the one closest to the AGP slot. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list