Forcing modules aliases on install

[Stephen Carville]

Andrei Pascal wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I have a system running varius versions of RHEL (it started on RHEL4 U2,
> now it's running RHEL5). There's a strange behavior of this system, and
> I cannot figure out why.
> 
> The system has two network cards:
> 
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5789
> Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 
> Even if the Broadcom device has a lower PCI address, it still gets
> detected as eth1 while eth0 is assigned to the Realtek. For certain
> reasons, I _need_ to have eth0 assigned to the Broadcom (on board)
> device. Therefore after the install (which happens every few weeks,
> depending on the activity in the area) I have to
> reprocess /etc/modprobe.conf and the ifcfg-ethx files.
> 
> Is there ANY method to make anaconda - or whoever else is responsible
> for this - assign the right alias to the right card? No, I cannot buy
> another Broadcom card; no, I cannot use Realtek as eth0 (I need Gigabit
> there).

I think there is a way to do this with kickstart.  I'll have to check my 
notes but if I come across it I'll forward it to the list

> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrei
> 


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