On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Nick Rout<[email protected]> wrote: > I had a box blow up the other day so bought a new one and put the old > hard drive in the new one. Its running mythbuntu (ubuntu with xfce > window manager and all the mythtv packages). All is sweet BUT for one > puzzle. > > Old box: intel chipset, onboard ethernet came up as eth0, usb wireless > came up as eth1 (if plugged in). > > New box: nforce chipset, onboard ethernet comes up as eth2 and if I > plug the usb wireless in it comes up as eth1. There is no eth0. > > Any idea why the onboard doesn't come up as eth0 as one would normally expect? >
Further info: dmesg|grep eth tells me: [ 28.978788] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.61. [ 29.498631] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x20 @ 1, addr 00:24:1d:61:4e:41 [ 29.498636] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt timirq lnktim msi desc-v3 [ 30.483778] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 36.797561] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth2 [ 37.358286] zd1211rw 2-3:1.0: eth0 [ 37.844051] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 So udev seems to be renaming the onboard and the usb wireless. But why?
