[wplug] two nics

[Ryan W. Frenz]

The wired card is a Linksys using pcnet_cs, and the wireless is a Belkin 
using the atmel_cs module included in 2.6.
Yes, I'm running the gentoo pcmcia-cs package and updated hotplug.

I was fairly certain there was a way you could just tell the system how 
to configure the card based on MAC address (regardless of interface), 
using /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and specifying a configuration for each 
HW addr -- but I can't get it to work either.  I'm new to gentoo so it's 
probably some other config file I'm overlooking.

Ryan

Jonathan S Billings wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 14:10, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:
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>>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.
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>The problem is that ethernet devices are numbered by the order in which
>they appear to the system, the order in which the device drivers are
>loaded.  Since both are PCMCIA devices (I assume) then their name, eth0
>or eth1, will be determined by the order in which you plug them in, and
>the appropriate device is loaded.  
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>With some wireless cards, you can supply a module parameter that will
>tell it to use a name other than 'eth', such as 'wvlan'.  What kind of
>PCMCIA cards are you using?  Are you using gentoo's pcmcia-cs package?
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