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 1IBDBU-0006B7-2W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:19:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6IHHDQt031921; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:17:13 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6IH8P0p019327 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:08:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE386524C for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:08:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.514 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.514 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.515, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JW+Yq5DVAIsU for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703C8652FE for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IB7mY-0003PJ-MB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:33:26 +0200 Received: from toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca ([216.138.195.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:33:26 +0200 Received: from hendrik by toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:33:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Hendrik Boom Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200707152242.44574.mike@gaima.co.uk> <200707171944.33167.mike@gaima.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: toronto-hs-216-138-195-194.s-ip.magma.ca User-Agent: pan 0.119 (Karma Hunters) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5b7c60be-54c2-4373-9b78-6b0559d6485f X-Archives-Hash: 4837979500debd984778310e82171011 On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: > > Gut reaction, firewire. > I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes. > Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change > your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking > support, or you ethernet interface may become eth0 (udev might save you). 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! - hendrik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list