I installed off the live CD. I will try a 6.3 net install and see what changes. El Aug 9, 2012, a las 2:40 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us escribió: > Richard Reina wrote: >> If it's as simple as sticking the MAC address into the ifcfg-eth file, >> I can live with that. But only ifcfg script that exits in >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ is ifcfg-lo >> >> I have no idea what k3wl is. > > Script-kiddie speak. 3 == e. I was being sarcastic (about the fedora > developers). >> >> Thanks for the replies. > > There should be *something*. Sounds like something's missing in the > network part of your install. > > mark >> >> >> 2012/8/9, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: >>> Scott Robbins wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:33:43PM -0500, Richard Reina wrote: >>>>> I have just installed 6.3 on a machine that was previously running >>>>> 5.8. Under 5.8 eth0 was eth0. Now with 6.3 /sbin/ifconfig gives me lo, >>>>> wlan0 and p4p1 (instead of eth0). I would like to make the ethernet a >>>>> static IP as I intend to for this to be machine used on my LAN only. >>>>> However, when I do /usr/sbin/setup -> Network Configuration the device >>>>> is not listed. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how I can >>>>> fix it. Or if not how I can set a static and persistent IP address for >>>>> the ethernet? >>>> >>>> >>>> Well...... >>>> >>>> I tend to agree with the slashdot commentator who called it >>>> overcomplicated and unnecessary. It's another idea from >>> >>> Yup. The difference between that, and sticking the MAC address into a >>> simple, existing config file is, oh, that's right, it's k3wl. >>> >>>> Fedora, the theory, IIRC, was that this way, devices would always have >>>> the >>>> same name, whereas under the method that has been used device names >>>> could >>>> change on a reboot. (Haven't experienced that myself, but dunno). >>> >>> I have. Putting the MAC address into ifcfg-eth? fixes it. >>> >>> <method elided> >>> >>> EXCEPT that in 6.x, you really need to edit >>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules, too, or take the MAC out of >>> ifcfg-eth?, since it needs to be in 70-blahblah. >>> >>> mark >>> >>> >>>> >>>> If you google Fedora biosdevname you'll come across various >>>> explanations. >>>> To change it back once the thing's been installed, I've always >>>> done it by first rpm -e biosdevname, then editing >>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-whatever, changing the device >>>> name in there to eth0, changing the name of the file, e.g, ifcfg-p4p1 >>>> to >>>> ifcfg-eth0 and >>>> restarting. I haven't gotten it working by just restarting networking, >>>> but at any rate, if you >>>> know you don't want it during installation, you can add biosdevname=0 >>>> to >>>> the command line. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Scott Robbins >>>> PGP keyID EB3467D6 >>>> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) >>>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 >>>> >>>> Spike: Should I really trust you? >>>> Adam: Scout's honor. >>>> Spike: You were a Boy Scout? >>>> Adam: Parts of me. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos