[Solved] Change eth1 to eth0?

Dorza · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: UK

During the boot sequence I get an error saying something along the lines of "eth0 could not be started" and the boot sequence continues. When I login I have to go to a terminal and type "dhcpcd eth1" to get my internet going. I know why this is happening; genkernel compiled Ethernet over firewire so eth0 went to that, I think and my regular, proper Ethernet device went to eth1. I have since removed Ethernet over firewire from my kernel and would like to map my proper Ethernet PCI card onto eth0. I have seen some ways of doing it on the net, but it seems that they don't apply to Gentoo.

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks

martin20450 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

You could remove eth0 from starting at boot and add eth1 as the default to start

nahpets · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject:

A custom udev rule should do the trick. Check out this post. You can also a udev page in the gentoo wiki.
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gsoe · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

If you don't have an eth0 anymore, just remove the file

Dorza · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: UK

Thanks for your help, got this sorted now

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