Re: biosdevname in fedora 15 - why is this inconsistency?

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On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 08:45 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> >> ifconfig shows I have em1, p2p1;
> >> Why does it not defined as pci<slot>#<port>?
> 
> > The man page is out of date. pciXp_Y got changed to pXpY, I believe
> > because it turned out to be important that the names be kept below a
> > certain length.
> 
> I also have biosdevname-0.3.8-1.fc15.x86_64, but ifconfig says I have 
> eth0 and eth1 for the wireless. How come?

That would indicate your BIOS doesn't have the necessary support; quite
a few don't. There's some notes on what's needed for biosdevname to work
at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_With_Biosdevname#Hardware_Requirements , the test day we ran on this function in the last cycle.
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