Some progress :-) was.. Re: [plug] grub query in mixed sata / pata setup

[Patrick Coleman]

On 8/3/07, Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> At 02:21 PM 3/08/2007, you wrote:
> > > PS for some obscure reason the sole on-board NIC chip reports as eth1, not
> > > eth0.   But it works :-)
> >
> >Could it be that eth1394 is eth0 ...?
>
> Ahhh... could be.   Thanks for that thought.   This mainboard is bristling
> with ports and 1394 is definitely among them.

You can fix that, if you want to, by editing
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules - at least on Debian Etch.
Ubuntu is likely similar.

-Patrick

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