New NICs coming up as devXXXX not ethX

[Josh Miller]

I have had this problem with Dell servers and I had to disable the 
on-board NICs via the BIOS to get the proper ethX assignments.

- Josh, RHCE

Shane Presley wrote:
> I have a Dell 2850 RHEL4, which had two onboard NICs (eth0 and eth1).
> 
> I added a new Intel dual GB PCI-X card, and for some reason the new
> interfaces came up as dev23379 and dev16239.  They work fine, but I'm
> not sure why they wouldn't come up as eht2 and eth3.  Any way I can
> control that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shane
>