From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Device naming randomness (udev?)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:23:45 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061203232345.GK27551@bakeyournoodle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45735230.7030504@mbligh.org>
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:39:44PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> This PC has 1 ethernet interface, an e1000. Ubuntu Dapper.
>
> On 2.6.14, my e1000 interface appears as eth0.
> On 2.6.15 to 2.6.18, my e1000 interface appears as eth1.
>
> In both cases, there are no other ethX interfaces listed in
> "ifconfig -a". There are no modules involved, just a static
> kernel build.
>
> Is this a bug in udev, or the kernel? I'm presuming udev,
> but seems odd it changes over a kernel release boundary.
> Any ideas on how I get rid of it? Makes automatic switching
> between kernel versions a royal pain in the ass.
Have a look at /etc/iftab.
Yours Tony
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-03 22:39 Device naming randomness (udev?) Martin J. Bligh
2006-12-03 23:12 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-12-06 5:49 ` Greg KH
2006-12-06 6:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-12-03 23:23 ` Tony Breeds [this message]
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