How to change network Card Hardware Device name

[avizen9]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[avizen9]

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.

[Court Campbell]

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.

[avizen9]

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.

[Court Campbell]

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.

[Dan Wanek]

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.

[Court Campbell]

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.

[avizen9]

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.

[avizen9]

resolved