Re: nameif with PCMCIA nics

Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:27:32 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.devel
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Dax Kelson ([email protected]) said: 
> I have a PCMCIA:
> 
> Cisco Aironet 350
> Lucent Orinoco Gold
> Xircom RealPort Ethernet
> 
> Ideally I would like the following hardcoded:
> 
> Orinoco == eth1
> Aironet == eth2
> Xircom  == eth3
> 
> Looking in severn I noticed that the initscripts package is now using
> nameif to have persistent network interface names.
> 
> Is this supposed to work with PCMCIA nics?

Yes.

> In my testing, it is *not*
> working with PCMCIA nics. :(

Can you elaborate in what way it isn't working?

Bill