Mike Crowe wrote: >I still couldn't get my local udev rules to rename the interfaces on >startup though. In the end I just disabled the e100 in the BIOS - I >hope that the two tg3s will always be discovered in the same >order... :-) > > Well, presumably the ordering of the tg3s is based on their PCI bus positions, so it should be better defined.
>I think I'd like to log a bug report about this though. Is udev the >best package to do that against? > > Not sure. It could be argued that udev is simply doing its thing, which is loading modules in response to hotplug events: and processing them serially is possibly going to cause other problems. Mmmm..... dunno. Raise it anyway and see what happens, I guess :) The issue with not being able to rename your net interfaces is certainly a udev issue, although whether it's a bug or misconfiguration is hard to determine. Maybe double-check the sysfs attributes using, for example, "udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/net/eth0". The first block of values (for the /class/net/eth0 node) are what can be used to rename the device. Also if udev isn't running when the module gets loaded, the renaming won't happen. I remember it took me a few attempts to get it right, but it was a while ago and I can't remember too many details. And just for kicks, the machine I'm using it on is i386 not amd64, so you never know.... but I'd be surprised if the arch made a difference. SRH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]