Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-19 Thread Andy Michaels
On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Chris Babcock wrote: T. Marvin wrote: The error I'm having (on the new one) is that when it boots up, the ethernet devices will show up as eth0 thru eth2 in the boot logs or whenever I force removal and reloading (i.e. rmmod, modprobe) of the 'natsemi' driver,

[Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-18 Thread T. Marvin
I have a pair of Soekris Net4501's, one purchased at the end of last year (2007), the next one purchased within the last couple weeks (March 2008). The newest one had v1.33 Bios (I down graded to both v1.28 and v1.32 in my testing, more on the reason following), the older one I presume has v1.32

Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-18 Thread Nils Vogels
IIRC, linux has the possibility to map the physical devices to logical devices in the bootloader, by passing options to the kernel, linked to the base memoryaddress This may have something to do with it? Kind regards, Nils On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, T. Marvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-18 Thread T. Marvin
Nils Vogels wrote: IIRC, linux has the possibility to map the physical devices to logical devices in the bootloader, by passing options to the kernel, linked to the base memoryaddress It likely can, though I've never used that feature, so am unfamiliar with it. This may have something to do

Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Babcock
T. Marvin wrote: The error I'm having (on the new one) is that when it boots up, the ethernet devices will show up as eth0 thru eth2 in the boot logs or whenever I force removal and reloading (i.e. rmmod, modprobe) of the 'natsemi' driver, but show up as eth3 thru eth5 when the driver is in