Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 3 16:27:55 UTC 2006
darrell pfeifer (darrellpf at gmail.com) said:
> In my case the BCM4400 device (eth0) has HWADDR but the IPW2200 device
> (eth1) doesn't. I'm assuming that the
>
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
>
> path is the correct one, not either of
>
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
The last one is the path read (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.)
> From the failure I see in /var/log/messages it looks like the Broadcom
> driver picked up eth1 first (ignoring the HWADDR?), then IPW2200 was
> left to find a random name.
Kernel pays no attention to user configuration - it just grabs the first
ethX name. The renaming is done by a udev rule.
Bill
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