Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2: bad e1000 device name

From: Arjan van de Ven <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:26:53 -0700

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> e1000 seems OK here.  Don't know, sorry.
>>>>   
>>>
>>> It's happening to all my ethernet-like devices: the Atheros wireless 
>>> comes up as a mess too.  It's different each time, so it looks like 
>>> random uninitialized crud.
>>>
>>
>> is this the binary atheros driver? then please try without that.. 
> 
> It happens regardless of whether the atheros driver is loaded (or has 
> ever been loaded).  But it also happens to the atheros driver, so it 
> isn't specific to the e1000.
> 

and you're also sure this is not your userspace using interface renaming...
(could be an initscripts bug for name-by-MAC ethernet device naming)