The woes of having two network cards...

[angelscat]

I have two Ethernet cards on my home computer: one is integrated and the other is a PCI card. The problem is figuring out which is which. Which is the RTL8139 card? Which is the one with the VIA Rhine chip? I'm too lazy to open the case so I'm not sure. And which is eth0 and which is eth1? It seems to be constantly changing. And strangely, I

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[brokenhut]

You should be able to turn the built-in card off in the BIOS. Whichever remains when you reboot is the PCI card. There's bound to be a smarter way of doing it in-system too. Try having a look at the contents of /proc/pci (if you're running a recent Linux kernel?).

[angelscat]

Thank you. I'll have a try later