Barry Brimer spake the following on 7/31/2006 6:32 PM: >> im having problems installing my nic card. my eth1 keep on renaming >> randomly to dev****. whenever i change the ifcfg network scripts at >> sysconfig and reboot, the nic tends to renamed randomly. i have tried >> changing this thing from davicom to 3com nic's. > > Does it do the same thing when booted off of a live cd such as Knoppix? > > Barry I think Knoppix uses a hardware detection program that creates the stuff in the ramdrive. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!