[oclug] network issue with Debian Woody

[Milan Budimirovic]

Dennis Gardner wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I was able to setup a debian woody pc no problem with one IBM (tulip 
>based) network card.  During installation, the NIC was configured as eth0 
>and the tulip driver was configured/installed as a module.  
>
>Now, I'd like to start setting up this pc as a firewall/gateway for my
>house (temporarily while I do upgrades on the current firewall/gateway).  
>Therefore, I am trying to add a second network card.  I've got a realtek
>8139 card.  It comes up during boot and takes eth0.  The 8139cp and
>8139too drivers are complied into the kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on the system.
>
>here is a snip from dmesg:
>
>8139cp 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.0.6 (Nov 19, 2001)
>8139cp: pci dev 00:0d.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible 
>chip
>8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24
>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd081a000, 00:50:bf:39:86:34, IRQ 
>10
>eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
>
>My problem with this install and other linux installs, to be honest, is
>that I don't understand how/when the ethX names get assigned to the
>network cards.
>
>Why did the realtek card take over eth0?  I still want the IBM card to 
>have eth0.  I don't know how to do that.  Physically swapping the two 
>cards in their PCI slots did not change the ethX assignments.
>
>If you know how to fix the problem, I'd like to avoid compiling my own 
>kernel.  I'd like to continue to use the ones from the Debian packages (if 
>possible).
>
>Anyway, for the time being, I changed all entries of eth0 in 
>/etc/interfaces to eth1 and the system is fine.
>
>BTW, does anyone know what I should put in /etc/interfaces for an 
>interface that will run as a pppoe device (using rp-pppoe)?  
>
>Sorry if these questions should have been posted to the novice list.  I'll 
>move them over there is that is the case.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dennis
>
>  
>

On a Debian system, the modules are loaded in the order in which they 
appear, top to bottom, in /etc/modules.