--- Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:54:53 -0700 (PDT), maxim
> wexler wrote:
>
> > > > Also, just noticed this little bit: "udev:
> renamed
> > > > eth0 to eth1". Why did it do that?
> > >
> > > Because you have a udev rule to do this? Take a
> look
> > > in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> > >  
> >
> > Looks like there's two rules pointing to the same
> > device:
> >
> > # PCI device 0x10de:0x00df (forcedeth)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*",
> > ATTRS{address}=="00:e0:18:99:88:77", NAME="eth0"
> >
> > # PCI device 0x10de:0x00df (forcedeth)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*",
> > ATTR{address}=="00:13:8f:33:32:e2", NAME="eth1"
>
> They are different devices, notice the MAC
> addresses, but in the same PCI
> slot. Have you changed cards at some time. The
> easiest way out is to
> delete the file and let it be recreated for the card
> you now have.
>

Never was a card. This is an on-board ethernet, just
as previously. More background: this is a new mobo and
new video card but the same cpu.

The new combo booted fine, everything mounted but
needed to be tweaked, naturally.

I took the opportunity to replace the 2.6.20-r6 kernel
with the 2.6.23-r6

Somehow, the OS(udev?) still thinks it's using the old
ethernet plus the new one...guessing here.

I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0
which I deleted.

Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But
doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now
defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't
that default to eth0?

mw


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