Re: Annoying problem with udev

[Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:41 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > I have a annoying problem with udev. It increases my Sun Cassini
> > ethernet port numbers every-time I reboot the Sun V440 server.
> > 
> > It stores new lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, over
> > and over again, without any hardware changes in the host.
> > 
> > It's running today's Debian Squeeze and udev 164. Does it depending de
> > kernel? Because I have seen this in 2.6.32, 2.6.34 and 2.6.30 if i am
> > well. And does anyone know where to start looking for a solution?
> 
> Do the MAC addresses change or?

Your question makes it more clear to me, Josip. While finding out what
the kernel prints at boot time. So it does change the mac addresses.

deblnxsrv225:~# dmesg | grep cassini
[  116.077833] cassini: cassini.c:v1.6 (21 May 2008)
[  116.146672] cassini: MAC address not found in ROM VPD
[  116.217853] cassini 0000:00:02.0: eth0: Sun Cassini+ (64bit/66MHz
PCI/Cu) Ethernet[6] 08:00:20:46:21:82
[  116.353130] cassini: MAC address not found in ROM VPD
[  116.424389] cassini 0003:00:01.0: eth1: Sun Cassini+ (64bit/66MHz
PCI/Cu) Ethernet[31] 08:00:20:b0:56:6a

Does the driver or the rom need extra setting or a update? If I am well,
it's loading this firmware at boot time.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23317 Nov 14 20:23 /lib/firmware/sun/cassini.bin

Thanks,


Frans van Berckel