Comment 4 for bug 153727

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Michael Doube (michael-doube) wrote : Re: Ethernet device's number increases by one after every reboot

I am having a similar problem with Gutsy on my Acer Aspire 3023 WLMi: Wired ethernet alternates between eth0 and eth2 at boot, while WiFi is always eth1.

lspci -vv:
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Aspire 5024WLMi
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at c0209400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 64000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

dmesg:
[ 7.224000] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
[ 7.224000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 7.224000] eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xf8846400, 00:0a:e4:e0:b1:0a, XID 10000000 IRQ 22