1 nic, but 2 interfaces show up

[grcore]

Laptop with drake 10.0 with built in ethernet controller.

Network connections is reporting two interfaces, eth0 and eth1, (there is only 1 nic) eth0 does not work, eth1 works.

eth0 tries to load driver <ip1394> (which is the wrong one)
eth1 loads driver <8139too> (which is the correct driver)

how do I get my ethernet eth0 to load the proper driver, and get rid of eth1. I tried removing connections and all sorts of stuff.

any help would be appreciated.

A clip from /var/log/messages

Dec 30 17:21:18 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Dec 30 17:21:19 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Dec 30 17:21:19 localhost ifplugd(eth0)[1272]: ifplugd 0.21b initializing.
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Using interface eth0/08&#58;00&#58;1F&#58;01&#58;00&#58;32 with driver <ip1394> &#40;version&#58; $Rev&#58; 1198 $&#41;
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Failed to detect plug status of eth0
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'.
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;19 localhost dhclient&#58; eth0&#58; unknown hardware address type 24
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;22 localhost dhclient&#58; DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Dec 30 17&#58;21&#58;41 localhost dhclient&#58; DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;13 localhost dhclient&#58; DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Killing child.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost network&#58; Bringing up interface eth0&#58;  failed
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; ifplugd 0.21b initializing.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; Using interface eth1/08&#58;00&#58;1F&#58;B1&#58;01&#58;F4 with driver <8139too> &#40;version&#58; 0.9.27&#41;
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; Using detection mode&#58; SIOCGMIIPHY
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; Initialization complete, link beat detected.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth1 up'.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;19 localhost dhclient&#58; eth0&#58; unknown hardware address type 24
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;22 localhost dhclient&#58; DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;22 localhost dhclient&#58; DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost dhclient&#58; No DHCPOFFERS received.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; client&#58; Determining IP information for eth0...
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Program execution failed, return value is 0.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth0&#41;&#91;1272&#93;&#58; Exiting.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost dhclient&#58; bound to 192.168.10.111 -- renewal in 42239 seconds.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; client&#58; Determining IP information for eth1... done.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost ifplugd&#40;eth1&#41;&#91;1333&#93;&#58; Program executed successfully.
Dec 30 17&#58;22&#58;23 localhost network&#58; Bringing up interface eth1&#58;  succeeded

[jackthe]

Is it a gigabye lan ? (not sure if this is relevant)
I've seen windows xp load up 2 interfaces for the same onboard nic ...with diffrent drivers
I'm guessing that they needed to ad another chip to the nic that /takes over/ and that they couldn't create a single schip (and so , one driver) nic for both 100/10 and 1000 mbps comunication

[grcore]

Found out (like many others) that eth0 now is the defacto standard for firewire netowrking. I dont use firewire, so I just changed all the scripts to use eth1 instead of eth0 and all is well.

This all began after a recompile of the kernel to fix an issue with cardbus, I guess it fixed the firewire too (and installed drivers for it).

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