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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:03:01
Message-Id: 20120625230110.6e453672@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest by Valmor de Almeida
1 On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:20:42 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
2
3 > >> udev persistent rules strike again
4 > >
5 > > The contents of /var/log/wicd/wicd.log below do indicate a mess up
6 > > with eth1 and eth0. Any idea on how to fix this?
7 >
8 > Yep. All I needed to do was to change the wired interface from eth0 to
9 > eth1 in the preferences of wicd-client -n and it works. So the
10 > question is, why do I have eth1 and not eth0 and how do I set up eth0
11 > instead? Is dhcpcd involved in this?
12
13 No, it's udev persistent rules. eth0 has already been assigned to a
14 different MAC address, so this one gets eth1.
15
16 Delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to go back to eth0.
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20 Neil Bothwick
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22 Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in
23 trouble again

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SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>