On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's odd. Does that box still have the failed loading firmware >> error? Perhaps missing firmware stops eth0 from being created. I'd try >> installing linux-fireware and trying again (assuming you havent >> already). > > I didn't have the firmware error on the desktop but I installed > linux-firmware and now eth0 is renamed to eth1 and appears under > iwconfig (no wireless extensions) but not under ifconfig.
I'm thinking you should set up some udev rules to help keep things clear. (You really shouldn't see a NIC get renamed like that) On my home router, I had eth0-eth2. I renamed them so that I had 'wan', 'wiredlan' and 'wifilan' instead. Check out udev and a "persistent-net.rules" file under /etc/udev/rules.d. (I'd paste mine as an example, but that machine is inaccessible to me right now) Setting up some peristent udev rules keyed on a NIC's MAC address will help keep things orderly for you. > My laptop's > r8169 eth0 appears under ifconfig even when there's no ethernet cable > attached. That's the expected behavior isn't it? Sure; ifconfig will even tell you if the link is up or down. Just because the link is down doesn't mean the interface isn't there. :) -- :wq
