Hi, On Dec 15, 2007 5:47 PM, Klaas Tammling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a gigabyte mainboard and just installed opensuse 10.3. My > problem is now that everytime I reboot the system my eth device number > increases by 1. Currently I'm at eth8. > > I've read in the bugtracker that this issue was known but should have > been fixed in the version 10.1 > > Does anyone have an idea how I can solve that problem? I think the > problem is that bios or something is changing the mac adress everytime > the computer boots.
I would be surprised if something really changes MAC address (this is usually given by device manufacturer and should not be easily changable). I observed similar behaviour with wireless card (ath). My symptom was that each time I created interface, a new record has been added to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. They all had the same MAC address, but increasing number (ath0, ath1 ...). Eventually I found out that there is another rule file: /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. This file contains device name whitelist: KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end". I removed ath* from this line and it solved my problem. But I can't say I understood why it worked like that. You can try removing eth*. If it helps, I would think about opening bug report (unless somebody knowledgeable explains why it should work that way). Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
