On Tuesday 23 September 2003 13:14, Ian Truelsen wrote: > 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.
If the drivers are modules, wouldn't the first module loaded be eth0 and the second eth1? Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
