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Autore: Alessandro Selli
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] Wicd and rtl8152
On 18/09/18 at 18:10, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 18/09/2018 à 17:46, Jackman a écrit :
>> Good morning!
>>
>> I am trying to use a laptop (Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1) with Dell's
>> K17A USB-C docking station. It appears that the docking station uses
>> an RTL8153 chip for Ethernet, and it seems to initialize just fine.
>> Wicd doesn't seem to recognize it, however. Furthermore, I can't find
>> a node in /dev that appears to align with this device. Therefore, I
>> don't know how to configure the device in /etc/network/interfaces,
>> and I don't know how to configure Wicd for it.
>
>     Net devices don't show up in /dev. But you can find their names in
> /sys/class/net
>
>>
>> As an additional tidbit, the device gets renamed upon initialization
>> from eth0 to enx00000000 (string of numbers). I don't know if that's
>> relevant, but it's the first time I've seen it.
>
>     You fall in the case of a laptop with two Ethernet interfaces,
> therefore you should not disable ethenet renaming but create some udev
> rule file in /etc/udev/rules.d. I cannot help you on this point
> because there isn't such a rule on my laptop.



  I do have it.  In my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I have
this rule:


# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1a:92:4d:45:d3", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"



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