[Voyage-linux] eth0 does not exist

[William M. Brack]

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Bill and all,
>
> I seems that the udev problem affect many of the users, especially they
> tested in one box and transfer the CF to another.  I didn't experience
> this problem before as these days tested voyage using PXE install and
> configure the box without transferring the CF cards.
>
> So anyone has discovered a reasonable solution for it?  I am now
> thinking about regenerating 25_persistent-net.rules everytime it boots.

I did spend some further time on this, and found that the troublesome
file (z25_persistent-net.rules) is actually produced by the file
/etc/udev/rules.d/z45_persistent-net-generator.rules.  I would favour
simply removing this (z45) file, either from the voyage distribution, or
at the time we copy files to the flash image.  IMHO, this Debian/Etch
"Feature" is poorly thought-out, and it's removal shouldn't cause any
hardship to Voyage users.

> William M. Brack wrote:
>> I had a similar problem on my WRAP board, and chased it down to udev,
>> with a file at /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules which was
>> changing the name of the interface from eth0 to eth3.  I haven't yet
>> figured out when that file got created (it apparently wasn't on the
>> original distribution), but editing the file fixed the problem for me.
>>
>> Bill
>
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