[wplug] two nics

[Henry Umansky]

Gentoo contains a file called /etc/modules.d/alias.  In that file add the 
following two lines:

alias eth0 wired-driver-name
alias eth1 wireless-driver-name

replace wired-driver-name and wireless-driver-name with the respective 
driver names.  So for example my file contains the following:

alias eth0 b44   # Broadcom 4400 NIC card
alias eth1 orinoco_cs  # Orinoco Gold PCMCIA wireless card

After you edit this file, you need to run the command "modules-update". 
>From now on, your wired card will be eth0 and your wireless will be eth1.

-Henry

--On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:10 PM -0500 "Ryan W. Frenz" 
<rfrenz at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:r

> I have two NICs for my laptop, running Gentoo.  I'm trying to set it up
> such that I can use any combination of one or both without confusing the
> system.  I want the regular NIC to be eth0, configured statically, and
> the wireless to be eth1, configured with dhcp.  If I boot with only one
> card inserted, the system tries to configure it as eth0 (statically) no
> matter which it is.  Is there any way to specify which card belongs to
> which interface?  I thought that modules.conf took care of this but I
> guess not.
>
> Ryan
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