>You're at the mercy of the BIOS. OTOH, why do you care?
Because I currently have the DSL connected to one of the cards.
As I mentioned in a followup, I'll just have to see which one comes up as which
and plug in the cable accordingly.
MB
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> Charles responded:
>
> >I think you could just switch the slots the cards are in if you find the
> >order changes on you. Also if it does change, it's really not that big a
> >deal to change eth0 to eth1.
>
> I suspect that if it does turn the configurations
>But -- in general, and this is sheer superstition, the device number will
>increase the farther away from the AGP slot (or the closer to the ISA
>slots if there's no AGP) you go.
Thanks. It so happens that the cards will be in the order you mentioned.
MB
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Bart
Bret Hughes wrote:
> Vidiot wrote:
>
> > I currently have one LinkSys (Tulip) card in the box and will soon
> > add a second in order to talk to the in-house LAN.
> >
> > When I install the second card, is there anything that can be done beforehand
> > to make sure the current card stays eth0 and
Charles responded:
>I think you could just switch the slots the cards are in if you find the
>order changes on you. Also if it does change, it's really not that big a
>deal to change eth0 to eth1.
I suspect that if it does turn the configurations around, I can just swap
the cables :-) As long
Bret responded:
>I believe you are in the land of making sacrifices to the bios gods here unless
>the cards are isa. I would bet with isa you will be able to set the irq/io
>addresses up so that you can distinguish between the two. pci on the other hand
>
I suspect that you are right. As
I think you could just switch the slots the cards are in if you find the
order changes on you. Also if it does change, it's really not that big a
deal to change eth0 to eth1.
hth
charles
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Vidiot wrote:
>
> > I currently have one LinkSys (Tulip) card in
Vidiot wrote:
> I currently have one LinkSys (Tulip) card in the box and will soon
> add a second in order to talk to the in-house LAN.
>
> When I install the second card, is there anything that can be done beforehand
> to make sure the current card stays eth0 and the new card becomes eth1?
>
> O
