On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is userspace doing "eth name by MAC address", your new card has a > different MAC address than your old card, the userspace application > tries to bind each name uniquely to an ethX name so it keeps eth0 free > for your old card. > > If you have a RH/Fedora like distribution, you can hack out the mac > address from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
Thanks, that was it. For those who are interested, under debian it's /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > > The other problem I have is, as soon as I do > > ifconfig eth3 up > > the machine is rebooting (like if I pressed the reset button). > > Adding "acpi=noirq" to the boot cmdline seems to solve this, but > > I wonder if it's the proper > > solution ? > > it's obviously not the proper solution :) > it's odd though; it could entirely be a bios bug. you may want to file > a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org against the acpi component, and make sure > you include the full dmesg of a boot at least... OK, filed http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9007 Thanks, Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
