Re: How to get rid of sungem at boot time?

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On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:54 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
...

> > If the eth0 device above is missing at another system boot the whole
> > devices order is shifting, and changed, and as a consequence
> > previous eth2 (radio card) simply does not exist any more, thus
> > rendering my settings in the /etc/network/interfaces useless ... :)
> 
> The solution would be to able to specify interfaces by MAC or position
> in sysfs rather than ethX name in /etc/network/interfaces... Volunteer
> to fix those scripts ?
> 



The sysfs approach works for me.  I have the file
"/etc/udev/local.rules" and a link to it in "/etc/udev/rules.d"

-------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/udev/local.rules
#
# name the ethernet devices clearly
# Help provided by http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
#
# To use make a simlink to /etc/udev/rules.d

KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:30:65:20:89:6d", NAME="airport"
KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:03:93:9d:ff:92", NAME="sungem"
#KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", NAME="pcmcia"
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Looks like I never got around to finishing it for my pcmcia card and
firewire port.

It's works nicely for me.  I don't use ethX anymore
In /etc/network/interfaces I use "iface airport inet dhcp"
or "ifup sungem"

This link discusses how to do it.
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

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