Switching eth cards

[Gerry Doris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Przemyslaw Gawronski" <pgg at tanren.pl>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: Switching eth cards


> Hi, how can I switch my eth cards, so the one that is recognived as
> eth0 will be eth1 and the eth1 will become eth0 ?
>
> I've tried changing in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> alias eth1 8139too
>
> to
>
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 ne2k-pci
>
> but that didn't work :-(
>
> Thanks for help
>
> Przemek
> -- 

I had the same problem when I tried to upgrade to FC5.  FC5 insisted on 
switching my NIC cards around.  I have scripts that need them the way they 
were.  I had been adding the following which didn't work:

alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 tulip


On April 1 I got the following reply...

Add to modprobe.conf after the aliases:

install tulip /sbin/modprobe -q etho; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tulip

This worked.