I have a new Dell Inspiron 1100. The first thing I did was wipe the 
harddrive so I could start with a clean slate. Due to work 
considerations I have to use windows XP for certain things, so I now 
have a dual boot with XP and Redhat 9.0.

On the linux side I am having a few networking problems. The box came 
with a broadcom 440X nic, which is unsupported by Redhat out of the box 
and I also use a Linksys WPC11 wireless card, which is supported by 
Redhat out of the box.

I downloaded and installed the drivers for the broadcom installed then 
and that works fine. I also configured the wireless card and it works 
fine, except that I can't get it to work in encrypted mode yet(probably 
my typing of the key).

With the wireless card in place, it is ETH0 and the broadcom is ETH1.  
The problem arises when I boot into Linux when the wireless card is not 
inserted, which is the case when I am at a remote site. Then the 
broadcom is recognized as ETH0 and it tries to use the orinoco prism 
driver from the wireless card. And I  then have no connectivity at all.

What I want to happen is, I think, to have the broadcom designated as 
ETH0 using the driver I install, but not have ETH0 activated at boot and 
have the wireless designated as ETH1 and activated at boot when it is 
present.

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Charlie