happymaster23 wrote: > Thank you, > > I am trying to make list of needed changes. So - first line of > ifcfg-eth* is commented full name of adapter (no sense). Only one > think that should be changed is HWADDR. This file is in three > directories (/etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth*, > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth* and > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth*). actually, those appear to be links to the same files... # ls -il /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 2524900 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 162 Nov 29 2007 ifcfg-eth0 # ls -il /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 2524900 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 162 Nov 29 2007 /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 # ls -il /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 2524900 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 162 Nov 29 2007 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 note the inode# is the same on all three. > Other thing, > that should be changed is /etc/modprobe.conf - there should be changed > name of driver connected to name of interface. So if I am swapping to > Intel´s 1000 family, there should be e1000e. > sysconfig (8) forces the system to run /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit upon reboot. you might take a look at what that script is doing (a fair bit, actually).