[Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

[T. Marvin]

Nils Vogels wrote:
> IIRC, linux has the possibility to map the physical devices to logical
> devices in the bootloader, by passing options to the kernel, linked to the
> base memoryaddress

It likely can, though I've never used that feature, so am unfamiliar 
with it.

> This may have something to do with it?

I would think that my test where I pulled a drive image (compact flash 
in this case) from another system and booted it in this unit, finding 
the same problem, would discount such a theory.