Description of problem: I have a classroom full of Dell Dimension 4600 computers. They have the onboard Intel 100Mb nic (e100 driver) and a 3COM 3c95x in a PCI slot. In RHL9, RHEL3, FC1 (and SUSE LINUX 9.0 and 9.1): eth0 -> 3c59x eth1 -> e100 In FC2, it is the oposite: eth0 -> e100 eth1 -> 3c59x This causes us lots of hassles as we run Linux classes in here on a variety of Linux distributions, and having to specially handle FC2 is a big pain. When installing FC2, switch to ALT-F2 you see: modules to insert mii e100 3c59x libata ata_piix loaded mii from /modules/modules.cgz loaded e100 from /modules/modules.cgz loaded 3c59x from /modules/modules.cgz loaded libata from /modules/modules.cgz loaded ata_piix from /modules/modules.cgz inserted /tmp/mii.ko inserted /tmp/e100.ko inserted /tmp/3c59x.ko inserted /tmp/libata.ko inserted /tmp/ata_piix.ko
This is probably due to ACPI vs not if I had to make a wild guess...
most likely yes. "native" probe order and acpi bios probe order my be different... not a lot we can do really other than not using acpi to probe which sounds like a step backwards
This would be a good thing to mention in the RHEL4 release notes, when that time comes...