Re: network issue

"S. Anderson" <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:55:22 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:59:05PM -0400, Toros Massarlian wrote:
> I have a problem with my network i have a Cisco 350 PCMCIA wirless card
> and a built in e100 network card. When linux starts after it has loaded
> the PC card services and the wireless card starts working it goes ahead
> and configures the network. For some reason my wireless is assigned to
> eth0 which is used for the Ethernet card. What i wanna know is if that's
> how it's suppose to work. Anytime i open the network configuration in
> RedHat 9 it tells me that the wireless card is assigned to eth0 which is
> the address for the Ethernet card. The wireless works fine otherwise. I
> want to be able to tell the wireless to take address eth1 not eth0 as it
> should. With my current configuration i can't use both wireless and
> wired simultaneously. 
> 
> Thanks
> Toros

you could try putting something like this into your /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 eepro100
alias eth1 cisco_module_name

hth,
sa