Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > 2005/6/20, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>I have two NIC's, one which is built into the mother board and one >>which is recently installed (this is on a dual boot system). before >>installing the second NIC I was able to configure an 802.11b/g network >>adapter from windows, and everything would run fine under linux. >> >>after putting in the new NIC on this particular computer, that's not >>happening. So, I'm thinking of configuring the network adapter from >>linux. >> >>because there are two NIC's is it now required to set up a DHCP >>software daemon (if I have that right)? >> >>thanks, >> >>Thufir >> >>the hardware: >><http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;169289> >><http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/manual_k7s.html> >><http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=WL-330g&langs=09> >><http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=124> >> >>-- > I had a problem that was similar, my off-board NIC became eth0 and the > on-board one became eth1, so I had to change all my config files to > adapt to that. See if that's what happened. ;)
The kernel assigns eth0 to the first ethernet driver that gets initialized, eth1 to the second, and so on. If the drivers are loaded as modules then you can control the order. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
