On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:08 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Right, which is why NM doesn't use device names, since those change > with plug/unplug too.
We have scripts in udev to avoid that, and give persistent naming of devices. Those scripts are based on _more_ than just the MAC address, which isn't sufficient on its own. And when new strange hardware configurations come up, people add support for that to the standard udev scripts. Surely people should be augmenting those existing scripts if they have to deal with any other devices, and NetworkManager should be able to make use of the persistent device names provided by udev? Is NetworkManager really just using the MAC address rather than relying on what udev provides? (In this case, the most best answer is for Garmin to fix the device so it _does_ have a consistent MAC address. Then we don't have to hack around it in software at all.) -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
