Hi Jason
see your having fun with systemimager.
Dennis
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> System Configurator was written to allow just that. It changes the
> modules.conf on the fly during setup to the hardware on your machine.
>
> This just specifies pci ids -> hardware modules. If you are getting
e1000
> vs. eepro100 for a card, this is where you adjust it. SystemConfigurator
> does auto hardware detection using an internal db, and this lets you
> override some of those mappings.
Okay, this seems to work, as far as it goes. The cards now seem to have
the right drivers, which is cool. However...
> > > man systemconfig.conf
> This will let you say that e1000 adapters always should come before
eepro100
> adapters when being set up. If you have a machine with mixed cards, you
> might need to set this to make things come up in the order *you* want
them,
> vs. the order that Linux will set them up in automatically.
I think I understand what this is supposed to do, and I will go try it
now.
However, when the machine is installing, and has booted the BOEL over the
network, and is pulling the image across the network, eth0 is the gigabit
ethernet card. Once the build is done and the machine reboots, eth0 and
eth1 swap places so that eth0 is the 100mbit, and eth1 is the gigabit.
I think I understand that the systemconfig.conf file can be used to keep
that from happening, but I guess my bigger question is "why does it happen
at all"? How is it possible that it finds the cards in one order booting
over the network, and in another order when booting off the local disk?
Different kernels, I'm sure, but the same PCI bus, on the same machine,
with the same cards in the same places...???
Help... I'm confused.
But I'll try the systemconfig.conf and see if that does the trick. I'm
sure I will find cases when I want to use this image, but I _don't_ want
the e1000 cards to always come first. What I'd really like is eth0 to be
the same card all the time *8-)
>
> > Am I mistaken?
> >
> > Thanks Sean!
>
> -Sean
>
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> There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
> than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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