On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:40:16 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:53:33 +0000 (UTC) "Amadeus W.M." amadeus84@verizon.net wrote:
Unfortunately the device is sill named em1, not eth0. So it's not NM. I don't understand why the udev rules files are ignored. Bug maybe? I'll report it and see what happens.
AFAIK udev rules allow you to rename your network device to any name *except* to eth. The eth namespace is reserved for the kernel, and udev will refuse to rename anything to that. But it should work for any other name you choose, like lan0, net0, etc. I remember reading about this somewhere, but atm cannot find the right link. But the essential explanation is given here:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2011-February/003762.html
Interesting, although I got it to work. Now I'm thinking that what I did shouldn't have worked.
But the real solution is to talk to Matlab developers and ask them to fix their software (if you paid for it, you should have some leverage in that). The eth namespace is not coming back, and the sooner they fix their software, the better for their customers.
HTH, :-) Marko
Of course, that's the right course of action, but there must be a critical mass of requests for them to bother, I think. So far it's just me and another guy. Don't know if they've fixed it in recent versions (2014) but this install is on a 32-bit pc and the last 32-bit linux version they have is 2012a, which I doubt they'll fix. I'm stuck with it for the life of this pc.