Re: Re: Upgrade to ipw2200-1.1.2: eth0 now refers to wireless card

Unga <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Unga,
> 
> Just my 5 cent: I too had the problem of changing
> interface names every 
> now and then as well on my notebook and my desktop.
> My solution was:
> 
> Using udev-rules:
> 
> -) in /etc/udev create a file called
> "netinterfaces.rules" containing:
> 
>   
>
KERNEL=="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:00",NAME="eth0"
>   
>
KERNEL=="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:00",NAME="eth1"
> 
> Replace the 00:00... by the MAC-address of your
> adapter.
> 
> -) in /etc/udev/rules.d create a link to this file:
> 
>    ln -s ../netinterfaces.rules
> 010_netinterfaces.rules
> 
> Restart udev - never had problems again.
> 
Hi Martin, thanks for the reply. I'm already on this
way. My mistake was I used the kernel device naming
directly. 

Regards
Unga

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