Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eth0/eth1 detected, but "wired" network is eth1...
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:45:22
Message-Id: 20060403093446.5bced204@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eth0/eth1 detected, but "wired" network is eth1... by Richard Fish
1 On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:23:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 > > But what is eht0, wifi? Can I somehow change network detection so that
4 > > eth0 is wired-ethernet, and eth1 "that other network" (probably
5 > > wifi)???
6 >
7 > Most likely eth0 is your wifi card. You can write udev rules to set
8 > whatever device names you want.
9
10 It could also be firewire if you have net1394 set in your kernel
11
12 udev rules are the way to go, it's how I keep my three interfaces (wired,
13 wireless and IEEE1394) consistently named.
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16 --
17 Neil Bothwick
18
19 All right, set phasers to deep fat fry!

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