On 2015-07-27, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 27 July 2015 14:58:58 Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard, >> with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine control, >> and while I finally did get networking up and running, I was amazed to >> find that udev would create an eth0 on finding an 8139too on the >> motherboard, this is in dmesg, but then renames it to eth5! Fixing >> my /etc/network/interfaces file to bring up eth5 made it work normally. >> >> But call me bumfuzzled by that remaning, what genius thought that was a >> good idea? >> >> And I've not found an entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net that >> would explain it. Can someone advise as to the reasoning for that? > > It is counting the networks cards that it has met since it was installed, I > think. If it bothers you, try reinstalling.
No need for such drastic action (and let's not forgot Gene's protracted adventures with the installer). Just delete the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net and reboot. It will be regenerated with the ethernet device as eth0 (assuming it's the only such device on board). -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmrcl53.27r.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
