On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:54:41 +0000 (UTC) "Amadeus W.M." amadeus84@verizon.net wrote:
I have to install Matlab on a Fedora 20 machine and I need to rename the network device to eth0, or else Matlab won't install. This is a known issue:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/100235-why-can-t-i-activate-m...
So, to revert to eth0, I follow these instructions:
...snip...
So NW somehow likes em1, despite all my efforts. If I stop and disable NW, then the network does not even start upon boot, as it should. How do I tell NW to leave my network alone and still have the network start upon boot?
Two things leap to mind:
1. Do you have the 'biosdevname' package installed? It's yet another older way of renaming things. You can simply remove it if you do, or pass biosdevname=0 on the boot line to disable it.
2. Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* files... move them to the names with the mac addresses that you want.
kevin