From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:35:31 +0000 Subject: Re: Proble using udev to rename ethernet interfaces Message-Id: <20051231123531.GA11550@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <200512311326.28436.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200512311326.28436.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:26:28PM +0100, Thomas Koeller wrote: > Hi, > > when trying to set up udev rules to assign names to my ethernet interfaces, > I ran into severe problems. There are two ethernet cards (of identical type) > in my computer, and I wrote the following rule to name the interfaces: Try adding: ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="net", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address" Your distro should include this until this patch hits the kernel: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=driver/net-swich-device-attribute-creation-to-default-attrs.patch Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&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