On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:33:20 +0000 (UTC), Hendrik Boom wrote:

> After my son, Henk Boom, who was an earlier gentoo adopter in my
> household, showed me just where the net.eth1 symlink had to go, it all
> boots properly.  Thanks.  I had never dreamed that firewire would be
> recognised as an ethernet!

It is if you have CONFIG_IEEE1394_ETH1394 set in your kernel. If you want
your standard ethernet to be eth0, swap over NAME settings in the
definitions in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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