Alex Harsch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have SuSE 9.1 which was working pretty well, so far. Jesterday I changed
> my ppp0 interface from manual to start onboot. Unfortuneatly, this mixed up
> all my interfaces, meaning, that my wlan is now eth0 and my ethernet is now
> eth1. This is annoying, because it makes me change my firewall settings and
> so on. Changing the value back to start manual on the ppp0 does now not
> make any changes.
> SuSE made some changes with the config files in the new release, so the
> config for eth0 is not stored in ifcfg-eth0 but in a file called
> ifcfg-MacAddress. Now I don't know how to tell the interface on which
> device to start. Has anyone already experienced this problem? Thanks in
> advance, Alex.

I think that the kernel assigns the names based on the order it found
them. This behaviour can be steered a lot by the file /etc/modules.conf
my aliases are
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 ne2k-pci
basically linking the driver to the numbers. If you have 2 identical
cards you might need to specify which irq or io they use to separate the
both...

goodluck Jan