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alexpnx

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From: Nicosia, Cyprus

Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 47

Network interfaces problem [solved]

Hello all, i have encountered a problem with networking in Arch.
I have a wireless (eth1) and an ethernet (eth0) network interfaces in my laptop and the wireless is the only one which is started on boot. Today when i booted my laptop, it said "SET failed on eth1...". Anyway, i've discovered that now, eth0 was the wireless and eth1 has become the ethernet. How do i bring them back to their original state?

Also, i should mention that i didn't upgrade any packages before i got the error.

Vins

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-12-14

Posts: 67

Re: Network interfaces problem [solved]

Take a look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

ViNS

alexpnx

Member

From: Nicosia, Cyprus

Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 47

Re: Network interfaces problem [solved]

Thanks for your reply.
Well, i did what it said on the link you gave me and  after rebooting i got the same error. Then i interchanged the mac addresses in the /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules files (mac addr of wlan associated with eth0, mac addr of lan associated with eth1) and it worked. But i'm not feeling very confident that this is the solution to the problem.

EDIT:
i have now remembered that i used to have the 8139too module loaded in rc.conf, but since it was automatically loaded by udev, i removed it, and that's when the problem started. I re-added the module to rc.conf, deleted 10-network.rules and now everything is ok.