Re: Debian/Ubuntu modules

Bravo!

On 2/21/07, James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
> I have no Ubuntu system handy to check, so this may be all wrong.
>
> Jim's missing modprobe.conf:
>
> On Debian systems, if there is no /etc/modprobe.conf the system checks
> in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. Each rule is set up as a distinct
> file, sort of like cron.daily, logcheck, or udev rules. Jim, do you
> have that directory?
>
> Shane's udev query:
>
> On a Debian system you should find
> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent_net_rules (and a companion set for
> cd's). These are created by udev and lock the interface names to mac
> addresses (and things like /dev/dvd to specific drives if you have more
> than one). So if you have a laptop and keep swapping out PCMCIA cards,
> you'll end up with a rule that says "any time you insert this specific
> Linksys card, it will always be eth4" or somesuch. You can edit the
> file if you don't like the automatically chosen name, or just delete
> certain lines if you no longer have the card, or the entire file and
> udev will re-create it.
>
> James
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Received on Wed Feb 21 11:33:27 2007