[Voyage-linux] Small problem with a Commell MP541D2 ethernet card

[Stéphane Acounis]

Le Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:40:09 +0100,
Joan <aseques at gmail.com> a écrit :

> The easyest way is to use udev.
> If you edit the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> You will see the ethernet interfaces that the system has detected.
> Just change the interface names in there and on next reboot the names
> will be as you wish.
> Note: I cannot confirm it's the same on voyage, but it certainly works
> on Debian, so it should work there too.

Thank you Joan but when I saw the way the file is written, I got scared!

I had a more precise look at the boot message and it appeared that the
e1000 driver (for the minipci MP541D2) is loaded before the via_rhine
driver (inboard LAN). What is strange is that the e1000 driver gets
eth0 and eth2 and not eth0 and eth1.

What i did is to include the via_rhine driver into the initial ramdisk
so it's loaded before any other net driver.
Just had to modify the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file and included
via_rhine, mii and crc32. Then ran the command "update-initramfs -u -v"
to update the ramdisk image and reboot the system.
Now the inboard lan is eth0. And I'm happy! :)

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