anyone have a Lenovo T400 with working ethernet?

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Fri Nov 14 18:28:03 UTC 2008


Chuck Anderson wrote:
> I think that is "persistent udev naming rules" which tries to keep the 
> eth name the same for every boot despite additional interfaces 
> coming/going, e.g. usb or other hotplugged devices.
> 
> You can find the mapping of ethernet address to device name here and 
> change it if you want:
> 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

That was it: I removed from that file two lines referring to
eth0 and eth1, and after reboot my Ethernet comes up as eth0.
Thanks!

> Also, make sure your ifcfg-ethX files have matching HWADDR= lines.  
> e.g. ifcfg-eth0 should save DEVICE=eth0 and HWADDR= that matches the 
> ATTR{address} from the persistent-net.rules above.

There are no fcfg-ethX files in /etc.
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