From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:27 +0000 Subject: Re: eth3 becoming /sys/class/net/dev22358 Message-Id: <20070131163627.GH5616@austin.ibm.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > I'm working with a fairly new machine running rhel4u3,=20 > and for some reason only 2 out of 4 broadcom nics are > named correctly. I.e. during boot it shows them all named=20 > correctly: >=20 > but for some reason eth2 and eth3 are named dev22358 and=20 > dev6737. Any ideas why this might be? You should crawl through the redhat updates. This problem was=20 seen on a large variety of machines and situations, and was=20 eventually fixed. I don't know what the fix was. --linas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=3Djoin.php&p=3Dsourceforge&CID=DEVD= EV _______________________________________________ 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