Hi,
After upgrading a Sony Vaio from SL4 to SL5, a strange (at least for me)
behaviour appeared for the network interfaces, eth0 and eth1.  Normally,
eth0 should be assigned to the wired interface, and eth1 to the wireless
one. What happens now is that the 2 are swapped, i.e. eth0 is asigned to the
wireless interface...
Even more strange: this happens apparently randomly, i.e. I get
the right assignments about 1 time over 3.  I found that the aliases in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf and /etc/modprobe.conf were swapped, but the
problem is still present after restoring the right aliases in these 2 files.
This never occured with SL4 on this laptop, and with SL4 or SL5 on any
other computer.
The only workaround I found was to run at begining of boot rmmod / modprobe
commands for the 2 drivers at beggining of boot.

Has anybody a explanation?

best regards,
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel