PE 1950 NIC order switching problem fixed by BIOS 1.3.7?

[Tom Brown]

> On Ubuntu you have iftab, which allows you to specify the how the kernel 
> should name the interfaces based on the mac address.
> The file /etc/iftab basically has a list of macs with the interface name 
> you want to associate:
> EXAMPLE
>        eth0    mac 00:12:79:59:8D:38
>        eth1    mac 00:0B:CD:5C:9E:2A
> 
> This way it does not matter what interface the bios detects first.

Just put HWADDR= into your interface files and this overrides stuff, you 
can even change the mac of an interface this way.