Re: udev foolishness in wheezy
Quoting Renaud OLGIATI (renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org):
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:48:21 +0100
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard,
> > > with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine control,
> > > and while I finally did get networking up and running, I was amazed to
> > > find that udev would create an eth0 on finding an 8139too on the
> > > motherboard, this is in dmesg, but then renames it to eth5! Fixing
> > > my /etc/network/interfaces file to bring up eth5 made it work normally.
> > >
> > > But call me bumfuzzled by that remaning, what genius thought that was a
> > > good idea?
> > >
> > > And I've not found an entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net that
> > > would explain it. Can someone advise as to the reasoning for that?
> >
> > It is counting the networks cards that it has met since it was installed, I
> > think. If it bothers you, try reinstalling.
>
> Is there a way to make udev "forget" the names it has assigned ?
I just delete the line in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net
(or set the name to something I like).
Cheers,
David.
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