Fixing NIC issue in Ubuntu 6.06

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Wed May 06, 2009 5:34 pm

I've installed Ubuntu on Compaq Evo D510S machine, when I installed the O/S there was only a built in NIC on which I configured LTSP but now I've added another NIC of BayLan, but it is shuffling between eth1 and eth2 after every reboot. I need to configure both cards.

How to fix such an issue, it happened last time and I needed to reinstall the machine with two network cards. Can we fix this without reinstalling Ubuntu 6.06?

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:24 am

Waiting....

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:25 am

i have a file in /etc/modprobe.d that says

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alias forcedeth eth0
alias 8139too eth1

that makes eth0 always be the nvidia-based ethernet device (on the motherboard), and eth1 always be the realtek card.

figure out which drivers are used for your onboard ethernet device and ethernet card, and create a similar configuration file.

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:25 pm

Well sorry brother, I couldn't get you. I opened that folder but after I fould a directory of arch and some files one of them was named with nvidia-kernel-nkc

Can u further explain this plz.

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Thu May 07, 2009 5:29 pm

man -k modprobe, and read the documentation.