On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:44:02PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hotplug is deprecated as far as I know, and its successor is udev. So, > I would advise against going to hotplug. Also, is there a specific > reason why the interface had to be called eth0, couldn't you just have > configured it as whatever udev chose to call it? Debian should do something similar with naming hard disks and serial and parallel ports. Make it *really* look and act like Windows. Michael