I have a Debian Etch system running on VMware workstation 6. The system has
been copied from another system using dump/restore in single user mode followed
by re-installing grub in the MBR.
The system boots and runs fine. The only oddity is that it assigns the name
"eth2" to the only Ethernet adapter, rather than "eth0" as expected.
Stranger still, the kernel reports the Ethernet adapter as eth0 at boot time.
Here's what the kernel reports at boot:
Linux version 2.6.18-6-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 17
21:31:27 UTC 2008
...
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x2000, 00 0c 29 f8 0b e4 assigned IRQ 169.
eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
...
But ifconfig shows it as eth2:
$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:F8:0B:E4
inet addr:192.168.1.62 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef8:be4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:709 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:70875 (69.2 KiB) TX bytes:97361 (95.0 KiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
The eth2 Ethernet device works fine if I add it to /etc/network/interfaces.
I'm running the standard Debian Etch kernel and modules.
Any ideas why the adapter is showing up as eth2?
Roy
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