Ethernet probe order

Phil Oester kernel at linuxace.com
Wed Nov 16 22:34:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0500, Craig Nottingham wrote:
> I am having issues with servers that come wit 2 onboard e1000 ports and
> and additional e1000 pci expansion card.  At boot the first onboard
> e1000 is eth0, after grabbing my kernel and initrd the pci expansion
> card is now eth0.

Sounds like the install kernel doesn't recognize the PCI IDs of the
expansion card, but your custom kernel does.  You could potentially
hack the initrd to add the PCI IDs, but that is non-trivial.

Phil




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