Re: eth0_rename

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:07 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hans du Plooy, 12.04.2007 22:00:
> > When I load my wireless driver, be it ndiswrapper or bcm43xxx, the
> > interface comes up as eth0_rename or wlan0_rename, and I see this in
> > dmesg:
> > 
> > ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'wlan0_rename'
> > usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
> > 
> > Anybody know why?  It's not too much of a problem, the interface still
> > works, it just looks out of place.
> 
> Do you have ifrename installed? If yes, just get rid of it and run
> /lib/udev/write_net_rules instead; this will generate udev-based persistent
> naming rules for your network devices; you can modify them by editing the file
> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.

Hi Thanks.  I have looked at /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
before - the devicenames in there were correct but for some reason they
were getting renamed.  It seemed not to be reading that file but nothing
turned up in the logs.  And I don't have ifrename installed.

I deleted the z25_persistent-net.rules before and
ran /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces - it generated a new file
with the device names as they currently were (with _rename).  Edited the
file, restarted udev and now it's right.  Not sure why it didn't work
right in the first place.

Thanks
Hans