On Monday 27 July 2015 11:56:19 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-07-27, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- 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/201507271437.53445.ghesk...@wdtv.com