I demand that Adrian von Bidder may or may not have written... [snip] > stable Ethernet interface names suddenly becoming unstable in out of the > box upgrades is not funny either. Yes, there are solutions, but at least > one of these needs to be installed in a default installation of Debian.
> "Network interfaces may be renamed after sarge to etch upgrades" is > acceptable. "Network interfaces may completely lose any stable naming and > may be randomly named after every reboot after sarge to etch upgrades > unless you manually install some additional software" is not. The same goes for *anything* else which has some sort of sequential numbering as part of its device name. I've mentioned sound devices a few times; yes, that's more annoying than critical, but the cause (AIUI) is the same. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html> Bjorn of Borg: "Tennis is irrelevant." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
