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09-12-2004, 03:18 AM	#1
sharpie Member Registered: Jan 2004 Location: California Distribution: Slackware 10.1 Posts: 190 Rep:	Switch wireless and wired NIC names I originally just had a wired NIC named eth0. I recently installed a wireless ipw2100 card and now that's called eth0 and the wired one is called eth1. It's working fine, I'd just like to know how I can switch the names so the wired is eth0 and wireless is eth1.

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