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jadeshade

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Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 4

assignment of network cards switches each boot (bizarre).

I'm working from a dell inspiron laptop which has both an ethernet port and a wifi card, which are registered as eth0 and eth1.  I have no problems configuring rc.conf and related etcs to get the wireless card to work (no driver problems or anything), but they switch names each boot.  Has anyone had this problem/ know why it would happen? I can confirm that all I need to do in order to get network running is switch all references of eth0 to eth1 (or eth1 to eth0) and /etc/rc.d/network restart in order to get online (as I am right now).

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: assignment of network cards switches each boot (bizarre).

This particular link to our wiki might help you: Mixed Up Devices, Sound/Network Cards Changing Order Each Boot

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-06-05 01:17:58)

jadeshade

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Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 4

Re: assignment of network cards switches each boot (bizarre).

Thanks, this should work