udev won't rename eth1 in fc6

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

sean wrote:
> I'm trying to persistently name a net card in fc6.
> 
> udev-095-17.fc6
> 
> cat 10-network-interface.rules
> KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:a0:24:54:28:cb", NAME="lan"
> 
> before modprobe:
> 
> ls /sys/class/net
> eth0 lo ppp0 sit0
> 
> then I modprobe 3c59x, udevmonitor shows:
> 
> UEVENT[1178971722.841091] add@/module/3c59x
> UEVENT[1178971722.849159] add@/bus/pci/drivers/3c59x
> UEVENT[1178971722.884779] add@/class/net/eth1
> UDEV [1178971723.163556] add@/class/net/lan
> 
> BUT,
> 
> ls /sys/class/net
> eth0 eth1 lo ppp0 sit0
> 
> so /class/net/lan is NOT created.
> 
> And why is eth1 created? I though the idea of NAME was that it named the
> true device node. SYMLINK was used when you wanted an extra name.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> sean
> 
I don't have time to look into it right now, but I suspect that the
60-net.rules may be giving you problems. You can check this by
adding the last_rule option to your rules.

Mikkel
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