Re: Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

darrell pfeifer (darrellpf gmail com) said: 
> In my case the BCM4400 device (eth0) has HWADDR but the IPW2200 device
> (eth1) doesn't. I'm assuming that the
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
> 
> path is the correct one, not either of
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

The last one is the path read (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.)

> From the failure I see in /var/log/messages it looks like the Broadcom
> driver picked up eth1 first (ignoring the HWADDR?), then IPW2200 was
> left to find a random name.

Kernel pays no attention to user configuration - it just grabs the first
ethX name. The renaming is done by a udev rule.

Bill