On Friday 31 July 2015 10:04:54 EBo wrote: > Gene, > > I got bit on a Gentoo upgrade some time back. There is a way to force > udev to use specific addresses instead of things like net.e13sp5, but > Iforget how to do that. Since I only have to deal with this when I > change the net hardware, I decided not to fight it and just deal with > it. As a note, when I stumbled onto this there was some long > discussion and justification on why this was a good thing. I did not > delve into the nasty bits and just accepted it. If you look around a > little you can find out how to go back to the old behaviour. > > EBo -- > > On Jul 31 2015 6:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > A heads up of sorts. And really has nothing to do with LinuxCNC > > itself, > > just the installer. > > > > In the process of finding a machine suitable to use as a linuxcnc > > host, I > > ran into a thing with udev that was quite a pain in the ass until I > > discovered the reason. > > > > Moving the drive, with the latest updated install on it from machine > > to > > machine, I had networking failures anew everytime I moved the drive. > > > > It seems some genius in charge of udev thought the interfaces should > > be > > renamed everytime the hardware changes, so udev, in its infinite > > wisdom, > > dutyfully finds and loads the correct driver for the hardware it has > > found. But some unknown place, it keeps track of how many different > > hardwares it has found, so since it had, by the time I wound up with > > it > > in the current machine, found several different families of > > hardware, it, quite a few lines on down in the dmesg report and > > easily missed, renames it, in the most recent machine, to eth5! > > Since my local network > > is hosts file based, I had to edit (after nuking network-mangler > > with extreme prejudice) my /etc/network/interfaces file so it used > > eth5. > > > > I have no idea what udev genius thought that was a good idea, but if > > it > > can be found and fixed to not do that in the next respin, it would > > sure > > be a lot better than a whole bottle of excedrin. > > > > I'll also tip my hat to whomever fixed the installer so it would > > accept a > > handmade partition, its the first time in several installs that I > > was able to actually setup and use a /boot partition as the first > > partition > > on the drive. The bios on the first of the machines I tried > > wouldn't boot, couldn't reach far enough into the drive to find the > > boot files, > > and a separate sda1=/boot partition just works. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
I've been told its easy but right now I'm trying to put a steady heartbeat into this machine. Net is working so its not nagging me or preventing me from doing other stuffs. Thanbks Ebo. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
