Dear all,

I am running a slack with multiple ethernet and wireless interfaces (actualy it does routing).
In the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 there are multiple variables for all NICs but I am trying to understand which PCI (or PCMCIA) card will become the eth0 interface, which one will become the eth1, which one the wifi0 etc. The slackbook says: Slackware will startup the interfaces with the information placed here (rc.inet1.conf) in the order they are found. How is this order determined in depth.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanx 2 all

angeloio,

Are the PCI NIC's all the same brand?

I guess you could go through dmesg and filter out what you need from there. dmesg | grep -i eth should list all the PCI NIC's. You can do the same with wifi0, just substitue it into the command.

Also, in /proc/net/PRO_LAN_Adapters there is some detailed information about the network interfaces. The directory path may differ I guess depending on the brand of your cards. Mine are all Intel, hence the PRO_LAN_Adapters.

Good luck,
-Kristijan

Hi,

You can modify the;

/etc/modules.conf

file to set the order for modular installed drivers. If they are compiled in the kernel you can pass paremeter to the kernel via cli or in the lilo.conf;

ether= parameters to the kernel.

Look here;

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...-HOWTO.html#s2

HTH!