On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 06:29:52PM -0400, george sollish wrote:
> Matthew Orgass wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, george sollish wrote:
> >
> > > No difference either slot.  Taking Manuel Bouyer's suggestion, I copied
> > > /etc/ifconfig.ne2 to .ne0, which did work, but still fails to explain why the
> > > new kernel fixed on ne0.
> >
> >   By default, ne0 and ne1 are hard coded to isa NE2000 cards.  Since you
> > don't have one of these, the script took them out and ne* started at ne0
> > instead of ne2.
> 
> Makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.

I haven't looked at that code, does anyone have an idea what would be involved
in making network interfaces on specific buses harwirable, kind of like
devices on the scsi bus?

When shipping a kernel to someone and talking them through a remote upgrade,
it would be nice to be able to remove the ISA neX entries, but still have
the pci come up at ne2 (or whatever) sometimes.

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