On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:22:11PM -0500, Digimer wrote: > On 01/04/2012 06:52 PM, Jeff wrote: > > Just installed centos 6.2. I run and ifconfig -a I see and em1 > > em2 and lo interface. If I go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, > > I don't see an ifcfg-eth0. If I run ifup eth0 it comes back > > with "Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying > > initialization". Anybody have a clue? Thanks in advance. > > The names of the devices are starting to change. The 'emX' are likely > your interfaces. If you check you should have ifcfg-emX files. If you > would like to rename them, you can follow this; > Not sure about RH 6.x, but in Fedora 16 and up, one also should remove the biosdevname package (rpm -e biosdevname) if they want to go back to the ethX naming scheme. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: I didn't jump to conclusions. I took a small step, and conclusions there were.