Linux Kernel 2.6.15-7

Hi all,

I have been playing with Fedora Core 5 for a while now and I have
discovered a odd thing
with regards to the ethernet cards. On a laptop I plugged in a
wireless card and the device name
that the laptop gave it was dev35623. Every time I ejected and
inserted the card a new number would appear. I just assumed that the
card wasn't supported or only partially supported. Yet today it
happened again but this time it was on a desktop with 2 Intel Express
Pro 100 cards.
The first card showed up as eth0 (like usual) the second card showed up
as dev904. I can
ifconfig the device as:

ifconfig dev904 inet 172.16.33.33 netmask 255.255.0.0

I can even ping out through the device but I was wondering how do I
rename the device
as eth1?? Or should I have to?

Cheers

Jason

Jason wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been playing with Fedora Core 5 for a while now and I have
> discovered a odd thing
> with regards to the ethernet cards. On a laptop I plugged in a
> wireless card and the device name
> that the laptop gave it was dev35623. Every time I ejected and
> inserted the card a new number would appear. I just assumed that the
> card wasn't supported or only partially supported. Yet today it
> happened again but this time it was on a desktop with 2 Intel Express
> Pro 100 cards.
> The first card showed up as eth0 (like usual) the second card showed up
> as dev904. I can
> ifconfig the device as:
>
> ifconfig dev904 inet 172.16.33.33 netmask 255.255.0.0
>
> I can even ping out through the device but I was wondering how do I
> rename the device
> as eth1?? Or should I have to?

You don't have to, but if you want to, check out 'man ifrename'. It should do what you want.

Larry