From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:41:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:41:10 -0400 Received: from green.mif.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.42.8]:44306 "EHLO green.mif.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:40:56 -0400 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200108081140.NAA04248@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:40:52 +0200 (CEST) Cc: rhw@MemAlpha.CX (Riley Williams), mra@pobox.com (Mark Atwood), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel) In-Reply-To: from "Eric W. Biederman" at Aug 08, 2001 04:52:51 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Andrzej Krzysztofowicz writes: > > > 1. NFS-root needs to have RARP/NFS servers on eth0. > > How can you deal with it if you have two boards supported by a single > > driver and, unfortunately, the one you need is detected as eth1 ? > > Assume that you cannot switch them as they use different media type... > > Hmm. Then my system that does DHCP/NFS root with 2.4.7 and comes up > on eth2 is doesn't work? Hmm it looks like it works to me. Then the documentation I've read must be outdated. Sorry. -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Technical University of Gdansk