[nflug] eth0 on debian configured sd card

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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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