Re: udev foolishness in wheezy
On Monday 27 July 2015 11:56:19 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 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).
It is the only rj45 on this board. I'd best re-edit interfaces to fix it
back to eth0 at the same time.
>
Thanks Liam
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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