>> what direction does the system...

Could very well be. I'm no hardware guy, so I was thinking that mebbe the BIOS or something else hard-wired determined which device was eth0 and so on. Didn't occur to me that mebbe the OS could decide.

>> running Knoppix on a Fedora Core Thinkpad

In hindsight, yeah, it does, doesn't it! I just needed a box to stick the K5 CD into, and that was the handiest that wasn't being used.

Whil