Comment 2 for bug 144263

new to Ubuntu so whats /etc/iftab?

I just did a clean Gutsy install on a Thinkpad T21 of server, during install it found the NIC as eth0 but boots with eth1.

        *-network
             description: Ethernet interface
             product: 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
             logical name: eth1
             version: 09
             serial: 00:10:a4:84:28:0e
             size: 100MB/s
             capacity: 100MB/s
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
             configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.17-k4-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.90.143 latency=66 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 module=e100 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 09)

[ 15.218862] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xe8120000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:10:A4:84:28:0E

I also see #47990, which seems to be closed as iftab issue also but doesnt explain. I dont have a iftab

root@T21:~# ls -la /etc/iftab
ls: /etc/iftab: No such file or directory
root@T21:~# uname -a
Linux T21 2.6.22-12-server #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:45:59 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
root@T21:~#