On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > first about FAT - yes it is normal, FAT doesn't support permissions > > NICs - did you check if you have any problems with drivers? that might be > the reason why they switch places. > You might also try to turn off PNP support in your bios and recompile the > kernel without PNP support. > > I've also found a small utility that will let you rename the interfaces. > ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org:/pub/ak/smallsrc/nameif.c > > Marcin Kurc > CAD Systems Administrator > Cooper-Standard Automotive > > -----Original Message----- > From: wsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:23 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things(2) > > > (never arrived back here so sending this one again) > > Hi, > > Today i upgared from potato to woody... > with: > dselect update > apt-get dist-upgrade > (just mentioning it cause this might be the wrong way?) > > And i switched to a 2.4.17 kernel. > > Now i have 2 NICs....different brands...realtek and 3com. > eth0, the realtek, connnectiong to the net and eth1 for the LAN, > which is a 3com ISAPNP NIC. > Both are compiled into the kernel. > First thing i noticed that the NICs had switched....realtek became > eth1 and 3com eth0....grrrrrrrrrrr. > > The other problem is that with my previous 2.2.19 kernel the 3com > was detected at IRQ7 and 0x300 which is what it is set to... > (checked with the 3com utils) > > But with 2.4.17 it gives me IRQ12 and base 220....which is the PS2 port > IRQ...(so no mouse either) > I checked again with the 3com utils and the card was still set to 7/300 > > From what i can tell i did compile the kernel with all the right options > including PNPisa. > > How do i solve this? > > And another thing...i also noticed that on mounted vfat windows partitions > every file and every directory now gets marked as executable... > Is this normal? > > Many thanks > Willem >
I've had the problemn with switched interfaces too (realtek, and 3com also :) . My workaround was to compile the first one into the kernel and the second one as an module. Worked for me. Hope this helps. Wojciech Arabczyk
