Re: r8169: instant reboot and interface renaming

[Xavier Bestel]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> this is userspace doing "eth name by MAC address", your new card has a
> different MAC address than your old card, the userspace application
> tries to bind each name uniquely to an ethX name so it keeps eth0 free
> for your old card.
> 
> If you have a RH/Fedora like distribution, you can hack out the mac
> address from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file

Thanks, that was it. For those who are interested, under debian
it's /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

> > The other problem I have is, as soon as I do
> > ifconfig eth3 up
> > the machine is rebooting (like if I pressed the reset button).
> > Adding "acpi=noirq" to the boot cmdline seems to solve this, but
> > I wonder if it's the proper
> > solution ?
> 
> it's obviously not the proper solution :)
> it's odd though; it could entirely be a bios bug. you may want to file
> a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org against the acpi component, and make sure
> you include the full dmesg of a boot at least...

OK, filed http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9007

Thanks,
	Xav


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