Hello,
My default cable network interface is called eth1 by LMDE (XFCE). That's fine for me and my network is working very well.
However, I have some awkward (proprietary) software (which I have to use for professional reasons) that requires activating, and this process won't complete without an eth0 network interface!
I have found solutions involving the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. I have tried to edit it and set the name for my ethernet card back to eth0. But no luck, it's still called eth1 when I restart.
What am I missing?
TIA, regards - Daniel
Cannot rename eth1 back to eth0
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dclement
Cannot rename eth1 back to eth0
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Axzercion
Re: Cannot rename eth1 back to eth0
You can find the answer at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm
However instead of creating a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d, you can just modify 70-persistent-net.rules (as the file is called on my system)
After that you still need to modify /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the change you've made.
Also in case you cannot ping hostnames on your local domain, modify /etc/nsswitch.conf where you will find a line hosts: files dns, which you will need to modify to: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
That solved all of my networking problems in LMDE
However instead of creating a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d, you can just modify 70-persistent-net.rules (as the file is called on my system)
After that you still need to modify /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the change you've made.
Also in case you cannot ping hostnames on your local domain, modify /etc/nsswitch.conf where you will find a line hosts: files dns, which you will need to modify to: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
That solved all of my networking problems in LMDE
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dclement
[SOLVED] Re: Cannot rename eth1 back to eth0
Thank you Axzercion for the valuable link.
I finally got this sorted out thanks to this thread (essentially, write managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf). I believe that if there had been no reference at all to eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, I wouldn't have had this last problem.
However, I wonder how all this worked, because under system > services, udev is unchecked in my case...
That was my mistake: I made backups of the original file, but I left them in the same directory (silly me). I'm almost sure that udev was still taking these "backups" files for real.Axzercion wrote:You can find the answer at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm
However instead of creating a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d, you can just modify 70-persistent-net.rules
That part of the Debian tutorial caused me some hair-scratching. My eth0 was there (ifconfig confirmed it), but Network Manager kept saying that the wired network card was "not managed".After that you still need to modify /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the change you've made.
I finally got this sorted out thanks to this thread (essentially, write managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf). I believe that if there had been no reference at all to eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, I wouldn't have had this last problem.
However, I wonder how all this worked, because under system > services, udev is unchecked in my case...