Thursday, January 27, 2005

A new card

Finally got a real ethernet card and installed it, except that something just isn't right.

YaST (SuSE's admin facility), which I used to configure cards, let me configure the new card as eth0 and the old one as eth1. When I booted the computer it insisted on seeing them the other way around, and neither card worked. When I reconfigured them as eth1 and eth0 the computer chooses to see only one of them, apparently at random. Or rather it sees the other one too, and even manages to get some IP address through DHCP, but it doesn't even let me ping the gateway. Whatever. The new one works, anyway. At least until the next boot when it might choose to use the old one again.


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