On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Background: > I have a gentoo system with a fried ethernet (interface) > on an older motherboard. I installed a pci ethernet > card that works fine for years. Lately, udev and the > myriad of related upgrades, have made it so services > (sshd, cupsd, etc) are wigged out now. So I rebuilt the > 3.4.9 kernel to removed all ethernet drivers except > the one on the pci card. All is fine with that. > > > New problem: > Udev renames the pci card from eth0 to eth3, > so cupsd does not work and the system comes up > with routing and the ethernet not set up > as it should from the /etc/conf.d/net file: > > From Dmesg. > systemd-udevd[1519]: renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 > > > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3?
Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Probably the old (fried) ethernet card is listed there (along with other stuff). Leave out everything except your PCI card (the MAC address is how you tell them appart). Worst case, delete the file (after saving a copy), and see if udev automagically solves everything by itself. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
