[CentOS] biosdevname

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Sat Mar 22 14:39:46 UTC 2014


On 03/21/2014 06:36 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/20/2014 10:33, SilverTip257 wrote:
>>> And an interface should only be detected as pXpY if it's a PCI NIC.
>>> THOUGH I've seen it already where an onboard NIC in a Lenovo desktop was
>>> detected as p5p1.
>> Just because the MAC chip is soldered to the motherboard doesn't mean it
>> can't be on the PCI[e] bus.
>>
> I'm in agreement on that.
> ( I just wanted to point out that there are some differences and quirks
> [that may not be a bug]. )
>
> I believe biosdevname applies only to Dell hardware, but maybe more
> hardware support has been added for other manufacturers.  That particular
> Lenovo hardware had an install of the latest Fedora release at the time...
>
>
>

My issue is the names changed when going from 0.4 version to 0.5.


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