Re: drivers/net/usb/asix: strange numeration of eth interfaces

[Igor Egorkin <igor@egorkin.ru>]

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 14:11 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> What you're seeing isn't strange, it depends upon what ethernet devices were
> visible when you installed your machine.
> 
> 'udev' in userspace remembers the mappings from ethernet addresses to
> device names, and renames devices as the system comes up to what it
> first saw them as, based upon the MAC address.
> 
> So one possibility is that there were 2 other ethernet or wireless devices
> in your system at install time, so the one that the ASIX device got was
> 'eth2'.
> 
> Therefore that is the device name it will have until you tell 'udev' to
> do otherwise.

Dear David,
Thank you very much!
It helps.
Sorry for my stupidity.




On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 10:37 -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> The goal(s) of your email/patch aren't 100% clear to me.

I was told to buy a lot of these adapters, but at first to test them. In
the debian stable there is old driver which does not see these adapters.
Driver from the vendor looks suspicious. I thought it better to get
driver from the current linux-3.2-rc6. But by mistake I thought I found
a bug, and decided to tell you. Time running out, and I cannot think
anything better than write to this mailing list. The next time I'll be
more careful, I will think ten times before worry developers. Sorry!

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Igor E.