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*). 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.
Is there anything that what I forgot?
I don't really know how the device detection stuff works (and haven't found much documentation), but I don't think the /etc/modprobe entries are actually necessary, at least for pci devices. You used to be able to sort-of control detection order there but I don't think that works any more and it didn't help much when you had multiple devices with the same driver anyway.