Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering] | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:43:55 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> >And now tell me please how can I connect two messages from dmesg: > >eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4201 PHY(5750)] (PCI Express) 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:14:5e:5d:18:26 > >nic10: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. > > Generally, the "link is xyz" message comes directly after loading the module, > so it should be eth0 before udev gets a chance to rename it. Or maybe not - ^^^^^^^^^^^^
you mean like this: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1. ... eth2: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
with eth0 really being (same MAC) == eth2.
> in which case, well, you're literally fubared, and your distro should put a > "renamed A to B" into syslog.
I think it would be helpful.
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