[Gllug] pci ethernet ordering

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Fri Feb 11 10:31:36 UTC 2005


And verily, didst David Abbishaw announce to the hordes:
> 
> Can't you also use the alias command in /etc/modules.conf to control this,
> something like:
> 
> alias eth0 pcnet32
> 
> Where pcnet32 is the name of the driver module.

Yesss... But that only works if you have different cards requiring different
drivers. if you have 3 e1000s in there, they all use the e1000 driver so
modules.conf/modprobe.conf can't differenciate
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