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. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507271548.21404.lisi.re...@gmail.com
