From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:05:18 +0000 Subject: Re: Network device renaming not working, help requested Message-Id: <1109113518.29183.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <421BB741.3000704@kuiki.net> In-Reply-To: <421BB741.3000704@kuiki.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:50 -0600, Jonathan Steinert wrote: >Syslog reports this: > >Feb 22 16:44:44 yuumi udev[6274]: configured rule in >'/etc/udev/rules.d/network.rules[17]' applied, 'eth0' becomes 'wired' > >line 17 in that config file reads this: > >KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:08:74:3a:1e:ee", NAME="wired" > >Does anyone out there have any ideas on this problem? I'm getting this >same problem with the pcmcia wireless nic on this machine as well. Are you sure, that this device is not busy at the time udev tries to rename it? If it is already configured, you can't change the name. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel