On Saturday 08 July 2006 22:51, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: [snip] > > You want to install the initscripts update. It should eliminate > > the devXXXX interfaces. > > I did so, and rebooted. The system came up and ran the network > initscript. I got a connection on eth0. I did not check to see if > eth1 was set up correctly. > > I then turn on NM. It broke my connection. eth1 had been replaced > with a mutant device name: > > dev1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:C6:C0:AA:26 > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Bummer. All I can say is that these were eliminated for me after I installed an update to initscripts. [snip] > The initscripts update did not eliminate the mutant device names. It > did, however, eliminate my ethernet device. Imagine my ecstasy. Perhaps starting over with system-config-network would sort this out. -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
