eth0/eth1 identity crisis on PB G4

[Bill Fink]

Hi John,

On Tue Aug 12 2003, John M. Wright wrote:

> When the CDs for YDL 3.0 became available, I installed it
> on a brand new gigaherz G4 PowerBook. There were some minor
> glitches in the installation (I wound up having to use the
> text-based installer) but on the whole I was very favorably
> impressed by how many things "just worked", or worked with
> minimal tweaking. (AirPort networking, printing, MOL, power
> management, sleeping.....).  Recently I took this laptop
> along on vacation, where for the first time I employed the
> built-in ethernet port and the internal modem for internet
> access (yes, even the internal modem worked after following
> the ibook internal modem howto posted on the YellowDog support
> site).  Before and during the trip, eth0 was always the built-in
> ethernet port, and eth1 was the AirPort card.  Since I have
> returned, the AirPort has almost always showed up as eth0, with
> the internal ethernet as eth1, although occasionally it has
> reverted to the original designation.
> 
> Has anyone else observed this sort of behavior and/or have
> any ideas about how to control it?  Or do I need to try to
> tweak the network startup scripts to try to determine which of
> eth0/eth1 represents the AirPort card and proceed accordingly?
> 
> I have observed a similar eth0/eth1 transposition before, on
> an old beige G3 with two NICs, but that was associated with
> the change from kernel 2.2 to 2.4, and it was stable as long
> as I stuck with one kernel or the other.

I believe it is sufficient to put the following in your
/etc/modules.conf:

alias eth0 sungem
alias eth1 airport

or vice versa.

					-Bill