[arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

[Tom K]

André Ramaciotti wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Daenyth Blank
> <daenyth+arch at gmail.com<daenyth%2Barch at gmail.com>
>   
>> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 13:51, Juan Diego<juantascon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> about the network card problem, have you tried adding:
>>>
>>> QUIRKS="predown"
>>>
>>> to your netcfg config file
>>>       
>> I thought that quirks were removed?
>>
>>     
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> That's what I thought too. Anyway, it didn't work, but I found out what the
> real problem was. For some reason, sometimes I got:
> Wireless -> eth0
> Ethernet -> eth1
>
> and other times I got:
> Ethernet -> eth0
> Wireless -> eth1
>
> so netcfg would fail reporting that eth0 doesn't support scanning. I think I
> solved the problem loading both modules manually so now I always have:
> Ethernet -> eth0
> Wireless -> eth1
>
>   
SImplest, most Arch-like solution is to load the modules in the required 
order in the rc.conf MODULES array.

I hope that's what you mean by "manually". :)


T.