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On Sunday 07 Apr 2013 21:25:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:14:36 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > Rebuild your kernel with the drivers for the NICs as modules. The |
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> > kernel *should* rename them to what they were before. I can't vouch |
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> > for this, but NICs which are not built in here were not renamed by udev. |
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> Where does this come from? Udev renames the interfaces when it |
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> initialises them, what difference does it make where it loads the driver |
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> code from? I am seeing consistent behaviour across machines with drivers |
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> built in and as modules. |
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I don't, and recall reading about this somewhere (was it this M/L? ) but can't |
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find it right now. |
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I have noticed that PCI installed NICs get renamed by udev, while extreneous |
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NICs, e.g. USB based devices retain their old naming convention. |
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In my case the non-MoBo cards and devices happened to have drivers installed |
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as modules - they were not renamed. Perhaps I drew an erroneous correlation. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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