bnx2 issues on Debian Sarge w/ linux 2.6.16 kernels

[James Pattie]

Thanks, I haven't gotten around to trying this yet, but the article
looks straightforward.

The only question I have is why it is detected as eth1 but then is only
available as eth2 later?

James A. Pattie
james.pattie at gpsinsight.com
http://www.gpsinsight.com/  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Moise [mailto:chops at demiurgestudios.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:53 AM
> To: James Pattie
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: bnx2 issues on Debian Sarge w/ linux 2.6.16 kernels
> 
> On 10/11/06, James Pattie <james.pattie at gpsinsight.com> wrote:
> > On this box eth1 became eth2.  On 2 other boxes I've had 
> eth0 become 
> > eth2.  There doesn't appear to be any particular reason for 
> the change.
> > I've looked at the name_eths program, but it doesn't seem 
> to support 
> > Debian and I'm not sure that it will fix the problem.
> 
>   You can do the same thing on Debian, if you're using Debian kernels
> + udev -- see http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm
>