[Hampshire] Some strange brokenness...

Hi All.

In a rather ill-executed manoeuvre yesterday, I finally upgraded my
RHEL3-type box. And I've borked it :-(

I have two ethernet interfaces in this box - an nVidia interface on the
motherboard, and a Realtek chip on the PCI bus.

The nVidia interface - using forcedeth - works fine. No problems at all.

The Realtek interface is proving difficult: on initial boot, the interface
name is screwed up. It comes up as "dev377" or similar (the number
changes).

If I modprobe -r the driver, then modprobe it back in again, the interface
comes up with the correct name, and things then get back to normal.

I'm a bit lost on this one. I've just added some debug to the module
options, but I'm waiting for my kernel build to finish before I reboot it.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Thanks!

Vic.