> >> Mike Burger wrote: >>>> I am still struggling with this f10 install. It appeared that the >>>> NIC in eth0 was no good. I pulled it out and left the second card >>>> which was/is eth1. >>>> >>>> It looks to me like that designation eth1 might be changed to eth0 >>>> using ethtool but if so, I can't find the right command. >>>> >>>> I have used service-config-network to set it up as 192.168.1.10 >>>> and >>>> eth1, network-scripts is set up for eth1. but no matter what I do >>>> a >>>> ping to another computer yields "Network is unreachable." >>>> >>>> This is a wired connection. I've tried a different cat5 cable. >>>> "ethtools eth1" looks ok compared to the other computers. Not sure >>>> what I have missed but it would be simpler perhaps if I could >>>> convince the NIC that it was eth0 instead of eth1 but I can't >>>> determine how that is set. >>>> >>>> Any help appreciated. I am about at wits end. >>>> >>> >>> Actually, it's probably in your /etc/modprobe.conf file. >>> >>> >>> >> >> /etc/modprobe.conf is an empty file? >> Do I need to use it to change the eth designation? Don't know how >> but ... > > Used to...it's possible that it's being done via udev, at this point. > Lemme look around at ethtool and udev info. Did a little googling of "udev eth designation" and found this: http://www.mepis.org/node/10770 The short of it is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. You can remove the line for eth0, then take the line for eth1, and as long as the "ATTR{address}" line matches the MAC address of your current eth1 NIC, just change: NAME="eth1" to NAME=eth0" Reboot, and voila!!! -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
