-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/30/08 09:18, André Timpanaro wrote: > I've installed etch recently and I'm having a real hard time configuring > my ethernet connection. > > Firstly, each time the computer is rebooted it seems to create a new > interface (for example, my only ethernet connection at this moment is eth7). > Also, the Gnome's Network Settings program > (Desktop\Administration\Networking, in the top panel) is not solving the > problem. If I try to place the correct IP adresses and after that use > 'ifconfig -a' it tells me that the connection is still configured > incorrectly (even though, when I go back to Network Settings, they are > correct). The only way to correctly configure it is using 'ifconfig' and > 'route' (and this must be done every single time the computer is turned > on or rebooted). Despite it all, the Network Settings works fine for the > DNS server > > I think there must be something wrong in a configuration file, but I > don't have the slightest idea.
The solution lays in editing this file: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules You'll need your NIC's MAC address first, though. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkho/QkACgkQS9HxQb37XmfZqQCaAzc3iTwJlLnRH/5FCjFR/M9r OSwAn1O6QW2jv4L08lJVycO5NichOVvP =rh+6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
