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From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:57:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321099053.3300.1.camel@stretch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9d3cy3vvs.fsf@nyu.edu>

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> 3.  Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules.
>     I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the
> old
>     device is gone.

Removing it does the same thing.  The device file is re-created with the
currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0.  It's just that most
people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone
to errors.

> 
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11 20:28 [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails Allan Gottlieb
2011-11-11 21:04 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-11 21:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-11 21:12   ` Michael Mol
2011-11-11 23:20     ` Mick
2011-11-12  2:41 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-11-12 11:57   ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-11-12 13:44     ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-11-12 14:03       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 14:21         ` Allan Gottlieb

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