Re: renamed interfaces?

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list drzeus cx>]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I have NetworkManager-0.4-18.FC4 on Fedora FC4.  I usually use the Fedora
> profiles to switch manually between wired at work, and wireless at home,
> but it would be nice have this be automatic.
> 
> Last night I tried NetworkManager (again).  I doesn't seem to work in my
> home environment (wireless).  One thing really weird.  As you can see:
> 
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 driverloader
> 
> wireless normally is eth1, wired is eth0.  But when I started NetworkManger,
> it looks like the wireless was assigned eth0.  What's going on?
> 

If you do not have any "normal" configurations (ifcfg-eth#) then those
aliases will be ignored. Modules will be loaded in the order they appear
when you use the 'kmodule' command. It's Red Hat's initscripts that are
to blame, not NetworkManager.

Rgds
Pierre