Unable to create udev rules for USB NICs

[rkp4k]

Hello,

I am running "Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #510 PREEMPT Mon Jul 22 21:55:20 BST 2013 arm61 GNU/Linux," and I have installed multiple USB NICs (plugged into a hub). Boths NICs use the AX88772 chipset and work fine. The difficulty I am running into is that /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules is not being created, so the NICs are not consistently assigned to interfaces across reboots. For example, NIC #1 was assigned to eth1 and NIC#2 was assigned to eth2, but after I rebooted, they swapped.

Based on what I have read, rebooting should generate the rules file, but that has not worked for me. Any ideas of how else I can get this file created? Thanks for the information.

-Ryan

[MrEngman]

For some reason udev configuration was modified to stop assigning names for eth and wlan when wheezey appeared. Why I don't know.

Can someone else explain why?


MrEngman

[rkp4k]

I think some previous versions had eth included in the device name whitelist in /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. However, mine does not:

# device name whitelist
KERNEL!="ath*|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", \
GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

[MrEngman]

I think some previous versions had eth included in the device name whitelist in /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. However, mine does not:

# device name whitelist
KERNEL!="ath*|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", \
GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

You're right. In some versions it looked like

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# device name whitelist
KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*[0-9]|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", \
                                        GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

The eth*| section was dropped from most versions originally I think then wlan*[0-9]|

I have added back the wlan*[0-9] section in some of my sd cards as I sometimes have multiple wifi adaptors connected and it makes life easier having the same names assigned on each boot.

Ryan
You could try modifying /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and add in the eth*| section to see what happens.


MrEngman

[rpdom]

You could always just manually add appropriate entries to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules instead of letting the auto-generator do it for you.

[rkp4k]

You could try modifying /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and add in the eth*| section to see what happens.

MrEngman, that worked as I now have entries for all of my NICs.

Thanks,
-Ryan

[Onira]

Confirm!

I made my own /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and it works fine