On Monday 27 June 2005 05:51, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
Hi,
In SuSE 9.2 the on-mother-board ethernet became eth1 *after* I plugged in a pci 3COM ethernet card (which took over the eth0 position).
In 9.3 the motherboard ethernet remains eth0 even after I plug in the 2nd network card.
I need to make sure that the order of sensing the Network cards is such the the PCI 3COM card is sensed *before* any other network cards.
Can anyone tell me how I can achieve this? (or point me to some documentation).
TIA, Zoltan You're probably better off asking on suse-linux-e@suse.com which is a much busier list specifically for this kind of question. I believe you can change which card is called eth1 or eth0 with YaST under something like "additional configuration". That's in the Network devices settings. It got weird for me, so I opted for deleting everything, and accepting defaults. 9.3 seems to have changed. I had a similar problem to what you are describing. And the worst part of it is that, until I started fresh, the cards were not being assigned to the interface device names consistently.
You know something is amiss when you are browsing the net from a different system going through the firewall. After you reboot, you have to change network cables to get to the Internet. Depending on the kind of 3Com card you have, this may be of interest: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Jun/2184.html -- Regards, Steven