Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 178988
my bcm43xx device went from eth1 to dev4679
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:57:50 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060103 Fedora/1.5-4 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: Could be a udev problem or an selinux problem (though I don't see any selinux errors) but my eth1 device, a bcm43xx, now comes up as dev4679. intrepid> ifconfig dev4679 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:B0:99:38 inet addr:10.0.1.240 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:feb0:9938/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:46228 errors:0 dropped:149 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:22795441 (21.7 MiB) TX bytes:4767476 (4.5 MiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:1F:A5:29:09 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15214 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:8034363 (7.6 MiB) TX bytes:1494541 (1.4 MiB) Interrupt:11 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:50213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:50213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:16069019 (15.3 MiB) TX bytes:16069019 (15.3 MiB) intrepid> I believe this started with the kernel-2.6.15-1.1869_FC5 kernel, or at least that rawhide update, and continues with this kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.15-1.1871_FC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual Results: The bcm43xx is no longer named eth1 but dev4679. Additional info:
From the discussions I have seen, this sort of thing is unavoidable, at least for softmac based devices. But I think that John is the final authority here. Please use nameif(8) and /etc/mactab for now.
It's back to eth1 with kernel 1872 and beyond.
The problem is back with kernel-2.6.15-1.1907_FC5. Is the /etc/mactab going to be the official solution on is this just a transient bug?
And fixed again with kernel-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5.
I think this is actually some sort of problem wih your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files. My guess is that you are specifying MAC addresses in some (but not all) of them, and the renaming of the interfaces is getting confused. Bill can answer this one without sweating... :-)
What do your ifcfg files look like?
I did have some old ifcfg files hanging around from when this problem first occured. I had one made for dev4679 with a correct hw address in it so it was probably the cause. After removing them, the 1907 kernel works normally.