NIC's using wrong kernel module in Mandrake :(

[Kardinal]

Hi there.
After spending almost a solid week trying to get my cable internet connection working through Mandrake (7.2) and after trying all sorts of advice I seem to have come across something odd. Using Hardrake (a drake version of linuxconf) it shows that my smc-1211tx is using the realtek kernel module and that my realtek card is using my smc module. How has this happened and could this be why I still can not get connected? How do I assign a module to a particular card?

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256 mg ram
13 gig IDE hdd
HP cd writer plus 9300IDE
40x IDE cdrom
Riva tnt2u
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...reminds me of my old Cyrix :(

[Evil Jeff]

Probably just swapped eth0 and eth1 on you. Happens to me every time I install anything. One time my realtek is eth0, the next eth1.

Evil Jeff
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[Kardinal]

Heh nice site mate, had to check it out.
So how do I swap the etho's?

[Ripley]

Add the following to modules.conf, conf.modules, or whatever file does the same for you.

alias eth0 <name of module>
alias eth1 <name of other module>

for my usb modem I use

alias ppp0 acm

which loads the acm module.