[plug] Network card initialisation order

[Kirk Turner]

Thanks Michael, changing the order of the modules in /etc/modules fixed
the problem.

Kirk

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:05, Michael wrote:
> Hi Kirk,
> 
> Have a go putting the modules names in order you want them loaded in 
> /etc/modules (not modules.conf). If that doesn't work then you can still 
> use /etc/modules.conf but you'll need to use directives like above and 
> below. See the modules.conf man page for information on that.
> 
> Kind Regards
> Michael Collard
> 
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kirk Turner wrote:
> 
> > Heya Pluggers,
> > 
> > I've had a bit of a google, and have tried a few things out, but without
> > luck.
> > 
> > I have a firewall/gateway running Debian Woody (2.4.18-686), with 4
> > NICs.
> > 
> > What I'm trying to do is specify which card is for which network for a
> > couple of reasons:
> > 1. I have a 10mbit card which I want to use for the wireless network
> > 2. It would be nice to look down the back and see the which network
> > cable is which by the order in which they are placed.
> > 
> > From what I have read it should be a case of setting the aliases for the
> > appropriate driver.
> > i.e.
> > putting the following into /etc/modutils/aliases
> > alias eth0              tulip
> > alias eth1              natsemi
> > alias eth2              sundance
> > alias eth3              ne2k-pci
> > 
> > then running update-modules and reboot and the order should match the
> > above. However it is not the case.
> > 
> > Other references I have seen mention editing
> > <kernel-source>/drivers/net/Makefile and changing the order in which the
> > modules are linked and recompiling. However I was hoping to avoid
> > compiling (particularly since the machine doesn't have any development
> > tools)
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated,
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Kirk
> > 
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