Firewire card now recognized as eth0

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 8 16:59:57 UTC 2004


Bill Estell (william.c.estell at cox.net) said: 
> I updated my system this morning and am now running kernel 2.6.3-2.1.238.
> 
> After reboot into new kernel, boot log shows:
> Mar  6 07:48:00 firebird ifup: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File 
> exists
> Mar  6 07:48:00 firebird network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
> 
> Prior to this update my ethernet card was always eth0.

Yeah, the eth1394 module is now blacklisted in modutils, while we
debate better ways to handle this 'feature'.

Bill





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