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On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:56, Jeffrey Smelser 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?

I believe you need to add lines like the following to /etc/modules.conf (/etc/
modules.d/aliases -> update-modules):
alias eth0 module
alias eth1 module

With 2 of the same card... erm... :) I guess Ian's experience is correct, 
makes sense.

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Mike Williams
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