meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
> unfortunately I had to change my motherboard (the replacement is
> exactly the same model/type of the previous on).
>
> I booted the new board and: NO Lan. Eth0 dead it seems.
>
> It took me several long minutes before I found the following
> line in dmesg's log:
>
> udev: renaming etho to eth1
>
> There is only the onboard lan chip and no extra ethernet
> card is installed in the rig.
>
> Now I have eth1 and no eth0.
> Why does this happen? What is the reason for that?
The reason is that the system wants to keep the devices as they are. If you
add a 2nd network card, you'd probably like to keep eth0 as it is.
But there's an easy solution for you: Remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-
persistent-net.rules and reboot.
Wonko
