[wplug] two nics

[Henry Umansky]

I forgot to mention that this is not for PCMCIA network cards, those you 
can't control what interface gets what alias.  So you would need to insert 
your wired card before your wireless card if you want wired to have eth0.

-Henry

--On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:21 PM -0500 Henry Umansky <hmust2+ at pitt.edu> 
wrote:r

> 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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