[64studio-devel] "Bootstrapping" an nforce-based machine on 64 Studio

[Ian Cote]

Ah, that is it:

eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)

Thanks!

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 16:54 +0000, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> > I have one of those awful nforce nics myself, and one thing that caught
> > me was that the built in NIC (there's only the one port on the mobo) was
> > grabbing eth1 rather than the expected eth0.  eth0 seems to exist as far
> > as the driver is concerned, but the actual port seems to be wired to
> > eth1.
> 
> It's worth noting that 64 Studio supports IP over FireWire out of the 
> box, so if you have a FireWire interface on your motherboard, that may 
> be grabbing eth0. We also support IPv6, at least in theory. I don't 
> think I know anyone that uses either of these technologies in a studio 
> yet, but we're looking to the future :-)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel