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Re: [LUG] ethXX device keeps incrementing?!

 

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:48 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Not really an issue, more of a question... why does my LAN device keep
> increasing?  This is on my laptop (which still doesn't sleep/hibernate
> nicely).  Everytime I reboot it I get a different ethXX number for my
> LAN interface.  Right now I'm on eth74.  Yesterday I was on eth69.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Grant.
> 
Can you turn off power saving on the network card? 
does it hibernate then awake as a new device? 
tail -50 /var/log/messages 

may help 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved repressed(possibly!Definitely!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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