Re: udev foolishness in wheezy
On 2015-07-27, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 27 July 2015 14:58:58 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> 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.
No need for such drastic action (and let's not forgot Gene's protracted
adventures with the installer). Just delete the file
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net and reboot. It will be regenerated
with the ethernet device as eth0 (assuming it's the only such device
on board).
--
Liam
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