Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 10:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 22:42:17 Alex Hudson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:43 +0100, John Southern wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, Debian appears to be in a world of its own and can
> > > actually flip NIC assignment everytime you reboot.
> >
> > Actually, that's modern Linux I'm afraid. NIC allocations, HD device
> > allocations, etc. are all variable - the name itself isn't static.
> 
> Does udev come into this as well? It does rather seem that we're 
> progressively losing control of our own systems.
> 
There is a good article about this on the arch linux wiki
(wiki.archlinux.org) but I can't find it! I did manage to find a forum
posting though (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=17274).

I had this problem and fixed it by forcing the order that the modules
were loaded so that the one I wanted as eth0 always loaded first. The
wiki article, if you can find it, goes over a better way to do it with
udev.

Robin
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