Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it >> wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling >> onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. ? That was confusing - unless you actually meant that the new PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wrote: >>> >>> So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent >>> udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > > >> Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persiste

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wrote: 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 (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James wrote: > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. HTH, Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ l

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James 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 > (ss

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread James
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 k