Unruh wrote:
> 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
>
eth0 and eth1 cannot be changed as they are 1 GBit ethernet interfaces on my
motherboard. eth2 is a 100 Megabit NIC. So i cannot move them around.

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