What if there is a pcmcia nic e.g. 802.11b pc card and 1 pci card. How can you force the system to assign eth0 to the pcmcia nic and then eht1 to the pci nic.
--- Lynn Avants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:52 pm, Laleem wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have some questions about the network cards and > the ethx interfaces. How > > do the ethernet interfaces get connected to the > physical network cards? > > > > Also, is there a way for me to force the network > card in the upper PCI slot > > to take eth0 (and so on)? The cards I have are PnP > and apparently I cannot > > hard configure the IRQ or I/O range. > > You can't force i/o or irq with PCI cards that I > know of. The pci cards are > generally loaded in the order that the modules are > loaded in and/or order > of the PCI-slots on the motherboard. Either > switching the order that the > modules are listed in /etc/modules or switching > slots on the PCI-bus should > correct the order for you. > -- > ~Lynn Avants > Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer > http://leaf.sourceforge.net > http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of > bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for > your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html