ifrename firewire to fw0 / hotplug and initng

[butonic]

Most modern laptops have a network interface and a wireless network interface. Some also have a firewire interface and a bloototh interface. All of them (not sure about bluetooth) will by default create an ethx network device. I'm running gentoo ~x86 and with sometimes things breaking and drivers failing the order of devices sometimes gets mixed up: at the moment the ipw2200 driver fails to load the firmware so my firewire interface becomes eth1. I dont like that (who would, anyway?)

I read up about ifrename as it is said to be the official "kernel" way of renaming network interfaces. Correct me if I am wrong. The Gentoo hotplug scripts invoke ifrename ( see /etc/hotplug/net.agent ), but with initng the script does not seem to be invoked.

I am not shure what the problem is. Uncommenting the DEBUG line in net.agent does not give any output.

Could someone point me in the right direction, please?

butonic

[UberLord]