Re: Udev net issues

2008-10-13 Thread Paavo
To make a 'clean' system disk that can be put into another system, remove all the /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistant* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*eth? and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*wlan? and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files. I copied the partition to another disk, and put that to a new

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joseph L. Casale wrote: In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and

RE: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Check .etc.sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-interface. Probably ifcfg-eth0 in this case. Mikkel That was the first place I looked and it was edited in the beginning. I read something about MAKEDEV cache, could that be the culprit? Thanks, jlc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and rebooted

RE: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the correct/current info. This is how you

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the correct/current

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the

RE: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
One further clarification: To make a 'clean' system disk that can be put into another system, remove all the /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistant* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*eth? and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*wlan? and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files. I think you found the error in my way! I