Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

[Adrian Reber]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:54:52AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adrian Reber (adrian at 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?

No.

> 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.

Okay. I will try it with HWADDR and see if it fixes our problem. Thanks
for the information.

		Adrian