On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:17:21 -0600, Chance Platt wrote: >> One of My Debian has eth1 as the Ethernet card, while all others use >> eth0. There are only one Ethernet card in each system. Why the >> different? >> > Is there more than one NIC in your system?
No, there is only one NIC in my system. > I'm guessing udev has for whatever reason identified more than one > network card installed in your system. It can be caused by changing > network cards, the kernel identifying your card differently at some > point (maybe kernel upgrades or bug, changed MAC address..) Yes, I think that explains well. This is the system that I been kept upgrading for years. The card changed from eth0 to eth1 during one system upgrade (and stays that way) -- maybe during hal to udev upgrading. > If not, delete the rules > associated with your network card in > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and reboot. Thanks to Celejar & Stephen's help. I get it corrected without rebooting. Here is my detailed steps: $ dmesg | grep 'ethernet driver' [1795967.314420] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver... rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ifdown eth1 modprobe -r forcedeth modprobe forcedeth $ dir /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 2010-01-28 18:45 /etc/udev/rules.d/70- persistent-net.rules ifup eth0 AOK! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
