From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HNo82-0005Yx-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:39:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l24AbR7a001583; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:37:27 GMT Received: from mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net (mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net [84.203.253.98]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l24AbQC9001578 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:37:27 GMT Received: (qmail 48907 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2007 10:37:26 -0000 Received: from 84-203-56-186.mysmart.ie (HELO ?192.168.0.1?) (84.203.56.186) by mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net with SMTP; 4 Mar 2007 10:37:26 -0000 Message-ID: <45EAA147.20104@indigo.ie> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:36:55 +0000 From: Barry Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] persistent-net.rules References: <200703040045.31686.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <200703040045.31686.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f700b015-bd22-494f-a633-d8236c6f7c76 X-Archives-Hash: a75330805ad2e5be8476a6eb379579af Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > Hi, > > does somebody know how to prevent the persistent-net.rules to be saved during > the shutdown process? > > The background is that I have a network interface with a faulty mac adress > (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) on a K8N Neo2 (nforce3 ultra). So the kernel applys a > random mac address to the network interface on every boot. At the shutdown > process a entry with the randomly generated mac address will be written > into /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. And that's my problem, > because at the next boot another mac address will be applied to the network > interface which does not match the one saved to persistent-net.rules and udev > does not provide an interface eth0. > > rgds > Bernhard > Possibly a fix for the MAC address, on the BIOS screen, press shift+f2 then alt+f3 which should reveal extra settings, including the option to enter your own choice of MAC address for the nVidia adapter. The original mac address should be on a sticker above the paralell port. You don't mention which K8N neo2, so you may have two onboard NICs, and the stickers MAC address will only be for one of them, the other being a digit lower. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list