Re: Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Adrian Reber (adrian lisas de) said: 
> I am seeing the same thing on a server using bonding with two ethernet
> interfaces. I have two different cards (e1000, acenic) and on every boot
> one of the card fails. The bond0 interface still works with only one
> card by I also have to do an rmmod, modprobe to get both cards working.
> So I have the same error in a different setup.

Not to sound like a broken record - but do you have ifcfg files with
HWADDR in them?

Background:

PCI modules are loaded (essentially) in parallel. If one driver takes
longer to initialize on a particular boot, the device ordering will change.

We have code run by udev (/lib/udev/rename_device) to handle this, but
it requires that ifcfg files have the HWADDR in them for the appropriate
devices so it knows what should remain what.

Bill