topic Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name in Operating System - Linux

How to change network Card Hardware Device name

avizen9 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:00:35 GMT

Hi,
I have configured one linux box and found that Redhat Linux can not detect onboard card, i found some source and compile for onboard card and its able to detect, but in hardware property its showing un-known device i want to put some word line Intel / 3G something, how to change it,

i have attached here a sample working station network info, i need to change it how. please advice for this. thanks in advance.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:39:54 GMT

Shalom,

In general it works First in First out.

First device detected is eth0.

The detection order makes little sense if you do the OS install at at time with two NIC cards.

I had an interesting situation in 2005.

I got a couple of Dell systems with internal broadcom cards. Did an OS install with a couple of Intel add in cards which I planned to bond inside.

The Intel Cards came out as eth0/eth1 the internal came up ad eth2.

I needed to redo the install and for grins pulled out the intel cards.

The broadcom card still came up as eth2

It makes no sense but you pretty much need to live with the results from this process.

SEP

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

avizen9 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:59:04 GMT

HI Thanks for reply,
erm.. i am not sure what are you talking here.

actuly i want to change the description for this network card, Just for example in attachment file you can see at present its showing "3com corporation" i want to change with "300com cop" something is it possible?

thanks for your next reply.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

Court Campbell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:42:53 GMT

I don't believe you are going to be able to change that. I believe the info is pulled from lspci. If anything you might just want to document your system so that you have the info you want/need.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

avizen9 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:51:42 GMT

HI Court Campbell
i have attached here one file, its having info all .c files through which i generatd network driver. you may go through it and let me know if you will get any idea,

i need to copy this folder in linux box and need to run make install to install driver.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

Court Campbell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:20 GMT

I am not sure what you want me to do. I don;t really have the time to look at this issue in that depth. Try grep'ing for key words in the files and see if you find what it is you want to change.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

Dan Wanek — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:57:14 GMT

Look into using udev rules. In ubuntu the rule is called 70-persistent-net.rules. You should be able to do something similar in Redhat and SuSE.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

Court Campbell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:50 GMT

Dan, he doesn't want to change the device name. He wants to change the device description. It's not going to be that easy.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

avizen9 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:55:39 GMT

i know we can do this, please work around i remember in past somebody has done this but i forgot how?

please help me for this.

Re: How to change network Card Hardware Device name

avizen9 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:54:14 GMT

resolved