Re: MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help

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MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help
\ Trenton Adams (3 May 2007)
. \ Neil Bothwick (3 May 2007)
. . \ Trenton Adams (4 May 2007)
. \ Peter Alfredsen (3 May 2007)
. \ Redouane Boumghar (11 Jun 2007)
. . \ Trenton Adams (11 Jun 2007)
. . . \ W.Kenworthy (12 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Trenton Adams
Date:	4 May 2007

Sorry for not replying earlier. Yes, I found it to be a fireware
ethernet. Why udev would put that first makes no sense.

I found another email on the list where someone had the same problem.

Thanks.

On 5/2/07, Neil Bothwick <neil> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 21:43:13 -0600, Trenton Adams wrote:
>
> > I have an ethernet controller that worked until I updated my udev to
> > the latest version.
>
> > It shows up as follows from ifconfig
> > eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> > 00-11-D8-00-00-7D-66-26-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> > inet addr:192.168.20.2 Bcast:192.168.20.255
>
> > I don't understand what is happening. It sets my IP just fine, but
> > the MAC address is WEIRD and there's no link.
>
> That MAC address looks like it could be a Firewire ethernet interface.
> Does ifconfig -a show your correct MAC address on another interface? If
> so, it is probably your persistent net rules messing things up, but if
> you don't use Firewire for ethernet, it's probably easiest to disable the
> eth1394 module.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
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