I installed off the live CD. I will try a 6.3 net install and see what changes.
El Aug 9, 2012, a las 2:40 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx escribió:
> Richard Reina wrote:
>> If it's as simple as sticking the MAC address into the ifcfg-eth file,
>> I can live with that. But only ifcfg script that exits in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ is ifcfg-lo
>>
>> I have no idea what k3wl is.
>
> Script-kiddie speak. 3 == e. I was being sarcastic (about the fedora
> developers).
>>
>> Thanks for the replies.
>
> There should be *something*. Sounds like something's missing in the
> network part of your install.
>
> mark
>>
>>
>> 2012/8/9, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Scott Robbins wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:33:43PM -0500, Richard Reina wrote:
>>>>> I have just installed 6.3 on a machine that was previously running
>>>>> 5.8. Under 5.8 eth0 was eth0. Now with 6.3 /sbin/ifconfig gives me lo,
>>>>> wlan0 and p4p1 (instead of eth0). I would like to make the ethernet a
>>>>> static IP as I intend to for this to be machine used on my LAN only.
>>>>> However, when I do /usr/sbin/setup -> Network Configuration the device
>>>>> is not listed. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how I can
>>>>> fix it. Or if not how I can set a static and persistent IP address for
>>>>> the ethernet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well......
>>>>
>>>> I tend to agree with the slashdot commentator who called it
>>>> overcomplicated and unnecessary. It's another idea from
>>>
>>> Yup. The difference between that, and sticking the MAC address into a
>>> simple, existing config file is, oh, that's right, it's k3wl.
>>>
>>>> Fedora, the theory, IIRC, was that this way, devices would always have
>>>> the
>>>> same name, whereas under the method that has been used device names
>>>> could
>>>> change on a reboot. (Haven't experienced that myself, but dunno).
>>>
>>> I have. Putting the MAC address into ifcfg-eth? fixes it.
>>>
>>> <method elided>
>>>
>>> EXCEPT that in 6.x, you really need to edit
>>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules, too, or take the MAC out of
>>> ifcfg-eth?, since it needs to be in 70-blahblah.
>>>
>>> mark
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you google Fedora biosdevname you'll come across various
>>>> explanations.
>>>> To change it back once the thing's been installed, I've always
>>>> done it by first rpm -e biosdevname, then editing
>>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-whatever, changing the device
>>>> name in there to eth0, changing the name of the file, e.g, ifcfg-p4p1
>>>> to
>>>> ifcfg-eth0 and
>>>> restarting. I haven't gotten it working by just restarting networking,
>>>> but at any rate, if you
>>>> know you don't want it during installation, you can add biosdevname=0
>>>> to
>>>> the command line.
>>>>
>>>>
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