From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932257AbWH2J1J (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932254AbWH2J1J (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:27:09 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:59589 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932228AbWH2J1H (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:27:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060829.022635.08324656.davem@davemloft.net> To: miles.lane@gmail.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, dcbw@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@goop.org, rml@novell.com Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm[1,2,3] -- Network card not getting assigned an "eth" device name From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20060828120328.ae734de0.akpm@osdl.org> <20060828.132717.57158097.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-2022-jp-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Miles Lane" Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:43:48 -0700 > Then, when I testing running NetworkManager.bak, I got: > > [NetworkManager.:6078]: Changing netdevice name from [eth1] to [`$,3u=(B$,3u=(B] > [NetworkManager.:6078]: Changing netdevice name from [eth0] to [`$,3u=(B$,3u=(B] Someone who can debug NetworkManager with gdb or similar needs to step through it and figure out why it wants to use this crazy garbage string as the name.