From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:21:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9vcqp2zgv.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112140312.0c21465e@digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:03:12 +0000")
On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:44:16 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I was worried that then eth0 might be wireless and eth1 wired,
>> but I should have tried it and only changed names if the switch
>> happened.
>
> No, that was a valid worry, you did the right thing. Removing the file is
> easiest, but only 100% safe if you have only one eth device.
Thanks for the confirmation.
allan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-12 14:22 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
2011-11-12 13:44 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-11-12 14:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 14:21 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
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