http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9073 :
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
$ sudo ifconfig eth2 up
$ sudo ifconfig
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:A6:9E:26
inet6 addr: fe80::218:f3ff:fea6:9e26/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:420 (420.0 b) TX bytes:4294967713 (4.0 GiB)
Interrupt:15 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12410 (12.1 KiB) TX bytes:12410 (12.1 KiB)
yeah!
for a reason I that don't understand, udev now renames eth0 in eth2
in 2.6.18, it renamed it in eth1
on my debian, i changed that in: /etc/network/interfaces
fyi, eth0 is used by firewire
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Philippe Bourcier http://bourcier.philippe.online.fr
