From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHx4U-0007Rh-Hl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:36:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 864FFE02F5; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4A0E02F5 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so3040247pyg.25 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:36:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=e1Zt7qwyX9O9o2m7VJEm62j/fR7qUO3ezNTlI9KDZBI=; b=tXc0CTy8inktu3/8c0IiP48beyLErL1XtI6uVb9RHG7kFciblHf0RJe2Sr+bzqWKY1 iDkkD4D9Kus8OU+edH7zv5pj+1BzyJDeaMuceZlDfuszm6xuDvdxY/OLeTC0UXKoXbfl MQ7g+yk8qFl5cH881RCm1Nyuo1rO+iHYv0gMo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Eg9GDtJSndCEHPYcF3ybtGPGVKK8umEO7pipr8fJ3lgLBG/kKMCY+bDfCgNmpwqYSO 6vI069e/imLfg2cJCbExpNRwDRa4ELpnQh6WsxFpUAY6rXLAvSb6wNGhiPUdkXCkXUQL wuPX9Is2te9KOliyVDEZ2N+/T1BFELb22XNxY= Received: by 10.65.124.7 with SMTP id b7mr14019117qbn.22.1215938200073; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.208.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm1456917qbw.2.2008.07.13.01.36.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:36:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:37:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080709032122.GD5379@waltdnes.org> <20080709084451.24bc05ee@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <20080712235556.GA15967@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20080712235556.GA15967@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807131037.10619.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2c17a8d1-bde0-4a96-be75-65568470cb1a X-Archives-Hash: 4dce017c2bf8936ac8696fe5c489af27 On Sunday 13 July 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:44:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > > chip *ALWAYS* comes up as eth1. > > > > Udev is doing this. If you have removed the second card, > > delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, otherwise edit > > the file to switch the assignments for the two NICs. > > Thanks. A "new and improved helpfull feature" that could've done > without. It's a trade-off for me. The interface might get a stupid name but at least it's the *same* stupid name every time, as opposed to the old method where interfaces were liable to change names based on what you did with your hardware this morning or the phases of the moon... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list