[LUG] Naming a device with udev

[James Wonnacott <jwon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to give a friendly name to my interfaces.

I've googled on the subject and found various udev rule samples, none of 
which seem to work.

here's the output of udevinfo for what is presently eth0:-

  looking at device '/class/net/eth0':
     KERNEL=="eth0"
     SUBSYSTEM=="net"
     SYSFS{weight}=="16"
     SYSFS{tx_queue_len}=="1000"
     SYSFS{flags}=="0x1003"
     SYSFS{mtu}=="1500"
     SYSFS{operstate}=="up"
     SYSFS{dormant}=="0"
     SYSFS{carrier}=="1"
     SYSFS{broadcast}=="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"
     SYSFS{address}=="00:40:d0:97:0b:4f"
     SYSFS{link_mode}=="0"
     SYSFS{type}=="1"
     SYSFS{features}=="0x0"
     SYSFS{ifindex}=="2"
     SYSFS{iflink}=="2"
     SYSFS{addr_len}=="6"

   looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:09:08.0':
     ID=="0000:09:08.0"
     BUS=="pci"
     DRIVER=="e100"
 
SYSFS{modalias}=="pci:v00008086d00001092sv00001071sd00008258bc02sc00i00"
     SYSFS{local_cpus}=="ff"
     SYSFS{irq}=="66"
     SYSFS{class}=="0x020000"
     SYSFS{subsystem_device}=="0x8258"
     SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1071"
     SYSFS{device}=="0x1092"
     SYSFS{vendor}=="0x8086"

   looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0':
     ID=="0000:00:1e.0"
     BUS=="pci"
     DRIVER==""
 
SYSFS{modalias}=="pci:v00008086d00002448sv00000000sd00000000bc06sc04i01"
     SYSFS{local_cpus}=="ff"
     SYSFS{irq}=="0"
     SYSFS{class}=="0x060401"
     SYSFS{subsystem_device}=="0x0000"
     SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x0000"
     SYSFS{device}=="0x2448"
     SYSFS{vendor}=="0x8086"

   looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00':
     ID=="pci0000:00"
     BUS==""
     DRIVER==""

I'm running Edgy

Thanks

James

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