Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?
On Thursday 15 July 2004 19:10, CW Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:02:05PM +0200, John van Spaandonk wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > John van Spaandonk wrote:
> > > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > > >>Any last words before I
> > > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7
> > > >>on my home (sid) PC?
> > > >>
> > > >>Will things break that used to work in 2.4?
> > > >
> > > >I still stick with 2.4 for the following reason.
> > > >
> > > >I use two ethernet cards:
> > > >eth0 is connected to the cable modem (it has to be this
> > > >particular card because of the MAC address)
>
> You can also use ifconfig to lie about the MAC address - I did this on
> one machine when I changed NICs and didn't want to hassle with my ISP
> regarding the change.
>
> E.g. add a
> pre-up ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> stanza to your network/interfaces file. (Of course this doesn't solve
> the problem about them behaving differently in 2.4 vs. 2.6).
>
> > > >eth1 is my home network
> > > >2.6 reverses the names eth0 and eth1
> > > >Apparently the PCI scanning order
> > > >changed - right, why keep something the same if you can change it? :-)
>
> snip
>
> ifrename is available in Sarge & Sid (note I have not used it--but it
> seems suited for this purpose). I suppose udev might do this also, but
> I haven't tried it.
>
> $apt-cache show ifrename
>
> Package: ifrename
> Priority: extra
> Section: net
> Installed-Size: 60
thanks.
Will try this..
John
> Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: wireless-tools
> Version: 26+27pre22-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libiw27 (>= 26+27pre10)
> Filename: pool/main/w/wireless-tools/ifrename_26+27pre22-1_i386.deb
> Size: 37400
> MD5sum: 74b13cffda8ff9a00e779cd94db6c490
> Description: Rename network interfaces based on various static criteria
> Ifrename allow the user to decide what name a network interface will have.
> Ifrename can use a variety of selectors to specify how interface names
> match the network interfaces on the system, the most common selector is the
> interface MAC address.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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