Suse 9.2 - How is determined which network cards becomes eth0 and which eth1

doublemax · 02-03-2005, 04:37 PM

I have 2 network cards, one Gigabit and one 100mbit and i want the Gigabit one to become eth0. But unfortunately i get it the other way around.

In older 2.4.x systems i was used to control that by editing modules.conf, but in 2.6.x the whole process seems to have changed and i can't find any place where to configure this.

I'm totally lost, could someone point me into the right direction?

Genjix · 02-04-2005, 07:44 AM

open up your pc, and swap them around?

doublemax · 02-04-2005, 08:51 AM

that might do the trick in this particular case, but there must be an 'expert' solution for this?

If i was happy with this kind of solution, i could keep using Windows...

keefaz · 02-04-2005, 09:47 AM

in 2.6.x kernel, edit /etc/modprobe.conf

doublemax · 02-04-2005, 10:15 AM

at least in SuSe 9.2 that does not work any longer, and from what i've read over the last 1 1/2 days, it shouldn't work for any 2.6.x based systems, because the whole system has been changed:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/91_sysconfig.html

keefaz · 02-04-2005, 10:25 AM

You could always put your modules names for your NICS cards in hotplug's blacklist and
then modporbe them by hand, so modprobe.conf is used...