assignment of eth* devices

[H. Streit]

Wow, well I've been running linux on a laptop for a year or so, and I 
always had this problem with PCMCIA-based nics taking the eth0 name 
(when the built-in nic was eth0, and configured for my home network).
I used a PCMCIA-based nic when I went to hotels and such, but 
everytime, I'd have to comment-out my home network settings...really 
irritating.
I think I'm going to try this out and see if I can get it to work...

David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:15:22 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic
> <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> wrote:
> 
>>For example, one might have:
>>
>>alias eth0 le
>>alias eth1 hme
>>
>>To swap assignment, simply change to:
>>
>>alias eth0 hme
>>alias eth1 le
>>
>>If they are using same driver, modprobe.conf will read something like this:
>>
>>alias eth0 hme
>>alias eht1 hme
>>
> 
> 
> Aleksandar,
> 
> I have tried making the swap in the modprobe.conf file and had no luck
> with it. After reboot, it came back the same way. This was with two
> different nics.
> 
> I have eth0 as sk98lin and eth1 as 8139too, but originally they were
> reversed. Originally, I tried swapping them, but something else was
> causing them to keep coming back so that eth0 was the 8139. The
> solution I provided earlier was the only way I could get it to work
> and stay through reboots.
> 
> I'm sure there are other ways to do it (besides swapping cables) but
> that was what worked for me.
> 
>