Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> writes:

>Allen Kistler wrote:
>> I saw this occasionally in FC3 when booting, but I think I see it more
>> often in FC5. My relevant modprobe.conf lines are as follows ...
>>
>> alias eth0 tg3
>> alias eth1 ipw2200
>>
>> Yet sometimes ipw2200 gets assigned to eth0 and tg3 gets assigned to
>> eth0. ifconfig and iwconfig say so.
>>
>Is this a new "feature" in Fedora? Because in RHEL3 this does not happen:

>[/etc]$ cat modules.conf
>alias eth0 e1000
>alias eth1 e1000
>alias eth2 e100


>This never messes up.

You are lucky. Try changing the order of those and see what happens.
Ie,
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e100
alias eth2 e1000

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