[nflug] eth0 on debian configured sd card

[Eric Benoit]

I took a look and thats what happened... I'm just gonna rm the file and 
reboot each time


Cyber Source wrote:
> Look in /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules (might be different on 
> debian). It probably has a rule to set the device name based on the 
> mac detected, this can be removed if it's a problem for you. The 
> device probably came up as eth1 or eth2. If you simply remove the 
> entire line, it will be recreated, albeit with the mac detected on 
> that boot, to change it permanently, you need to edit the line to NOT 
> do the mac lookup, I don't recall how I've done that before, but I 
> remember it was simple.
>
> Eric Benoit wrote:
>> Greetings, I configured an sd card to run debian to that I could 
>> image drives and retrieve images for some eeePC900 laptops.
>>
>> I am doing this over the network to my computers hard drive space.
>>
>> The first laptop I re-imaged worked fine over the network, which was 
>> also the laptop I installed debian on the sd card.
>>
>> when I boot from the sd card for the other laptops the network eth0 
>> does not come up I checked /etc/network/interfaces and the 
>> configuration has not changed... do I need to specify a different mac 
>> address somewhere to let linux know about the device... because all 
>> these laptops are the same the network device/hardware is the same 
>> except the mac address ...which is the only reason I think of why the 
>> eth0 device will not work ...and of course pinging does no good... 
>> "Network is unreachable"  I've tried ifup eth0 ...error while getting 
>> interface flags: no such device
>>
>> the network device does work though when I boot with the original 
>> xandros OS
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