[BlueOnyx:05906] Re: replacement mainboard for tyan gs-14?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Florian,

> yeah. the only thing i don't like is that it's obviously not possible to
> deactivate the port on bios level (or i missed the option) so the os is
> still going to see it and bo will use the defective one as the first
> network interface by default.

The config option HWADDR allows you to select a certain card by it's unique 
MAC address and can then bind it to a specific interface. How to make use of 
it:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and add the line ....

HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00

... to it. Replace "00:00:00:00:00:00" with the MAC address of the network 
card that you want to force to be eth0.

You can find out the MAC address by running /sbin/ifconfig.

After the changes simply reboot and you're done.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber