Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:58:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:58:32 -0500 Received: from lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.44]:44798 "EHLO lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:58:21 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: James A Sutherland To: David Woodhouse , Dale Amon Subject: Re: A return to PCI ordering problems... Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:57:47 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011120190316.H19738@vnl.com> <2048.1006291657@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <2048.1006291657@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 20 November 2001 9:27 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: > amon@vnl.com said: > > In any case, here is the problem: > > NIC on motherboard, Realtek > > NIC on PCI card, Realtek > > Monolithic (no-module) kernel > > Motherboard must be set to eth0 > > Why must the motherboard be set to eth0? Why not just configure it as it > gets detected? He has some software licensing thing which checks the MAC address of eth0. Of course, what he could do is change the MAC address of eth0 to whatever the licensing software wants... :-) > If you really care about the names, there's an ioctl you can use to change > them. You can call them 'fred' and 'sheila' if you so desire. So you can you swap them, so eth1 becomes eth0? If so, that should solve his problem... James. - 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/