On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Only thing to add here is the network card does work, however I > >> get a dmesg output that eth1 has an invalid MAC address. > > > > Asus mainboard? > > > >> Is that invalid MAC address changing my setup? I dont think it should. > >> granted I'm still looking at finding a way to reset he MAC address or > >> something but I dont think the ifcfg-eth files should be modified. > > > > The random address is different from the one which is in ifcfg-eth* from > > installation. > > > >> This seems like a bug- that is the reason for the post. > > > > Yes. Googling around hints at this being a BIOS bug. Also see > > <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1949>. > > Can you fix this by removing the: > HWADDR= > line from the ifcfg-eth* files? Most of my machines have swappable > drive carriers and I routinely swap them and clone machines by dd'ing > the raw disks. If I remove the HWADDR entry I can assign the IP > addresses when building the disks and have it come up correctly when the > disk is installed in some remote machine. I suppose someday this will > break when I'm not looking, but it has saved me a lot of trouble over > the last several years. Now if the kernels would just be consistent > about the order they probe the devices and assign the eth* names.... I was going to suggest trying that too....
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