Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:37:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:37:01 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:40901 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:37:00 -0400 Subject: Re: PCI device order problem From: Alan Cox To: "H. J. Lu" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20021024165631.A22676@lucon.org> References: <20021024163945.A21961@lucon.org> <3DB88715.7070203@pobox.com> <20021024165631.A22676@lucon.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 25 Oct 2002 11:00:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1035540031.13032.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 00:56, H. J. Lu wrote: > It is different from the hardware documentation. The hardware manual says > it has 2 NICs, NIC 1 (03:07.0) and NIC2 (03:07.1), which makes senses > to me. NIC 1 is a special one which supports IPMI over LAN. Since we > only use one NIC now, we'd like to use NIC 1 and call it eth0. SIOCSIFNAME ioctl. You can call them "haddock" and "chips" if you really want, or swap the eth%d names about. RH 8.0 allows you to bind an interface to a mac address too - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/