Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2: bad e1000 device name

Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-08T15:26:56Z

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> e1000 seems OK here. Don't know, sorry.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's happening to all my ethernet-like devices: the Atheros wireless
>>> comes up as a mess too. It's different each time, so it looks like
>>> random uninitialized crud.
>>>
>>
>> is this the binary atheros driver? then please try without that..
>
> It happens regardless of whether the atheros driver is loaded (or has
> ever been loaded). But it also happens to the atheros driver, so it
> isn't specific to the e1000.
>

and you're also sure this is not your userspace using interface renaming...
(could be an initscripts bug for name-by-MAC ethernet device naming)