Quoting Renaud OLGIATI (ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org): > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:48:21 +0100 > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@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. -- 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/20150727154353.GA8847@alum
