Mystery of device names

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> But I am surprised that setting something like 
> "alias eth0 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modprobe.conf 
> is not enough to persuade the laptop to use eth0 for this card,
> even after re-booting?

Is it still surprising if e100 has already grabbed eth0?  If you
blacklist e100 completely as a test

install e100 /bin/true

then you will have more luck if I understood it.

-Andy