Bug#438663: resolved; should be re-assign to udev?

[buffalo.phil@free.fr]

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9073 :


$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

$ sudo ifconfig eth2 up
$ sudo ifconfig
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F3:A6:9E:26
          inet6 addr: fe80::218:f3ff:fea6:9e26/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:420 (420.0 b)  TX bytes:4294967713 (4.0 GiB)
          Interrupt:15 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:12410 (12.1 KiB)  TX bytes:12410 (12.1 KiB)

yeah!

for a reason I that don't understand, udev now renames eth0 in eth2
in 2.6.18, it renamed it in eth1

on my debian, i changed that in: /etc/network/interfaces

fyi, eth0 is used by firewire
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