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kds66
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: [solved] Why is wlan0 renamed eth1? |
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Somehow my wireless interface gets renamed eth1 during initialization. Does anybody know why that is done? Where can I configure that the original name wlan0 shall be retained?
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gerdesj
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What sort of WLAN card do you have? Could we see your /etc/conf.d/net?
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Neo2
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When an interface is recognized for the first time udev assigns an arbitrary name depending on the hardware type. Then that name is written in udev rules, so that everytime the interface is plugged in the same name as before gets used.
Have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and edit the NAME= directive related to the interface you want to rename. Restart udev (or reboot your system) and you're done 
If you have config files so pointing at eth1 interface, you'll have to fix them to point at the new interface name
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kds66
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Right!
My /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules contains the following:
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# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8169 (r8169)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:36:52:4f", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4318 (bcm43xx)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:14:a5:39:b9:d4", NAME="eth1"
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