Dear all I've upgraded SuSE 10.2 workstation by changed the motherboard. Both the old motherboard and the new one have on-board ether card. After reboot, ether network stopped working. I go to Yast -> Network devices -> Network card and see two cards there. I remove the old on-board card and select the new on-board card to configure it using DHCP. Reboot the machine I got the new card working as eth1. /sbin/ifconfig -a shows I have only 3 interfaces, eth1, lo, sit0. Then my vmplayer stopped working and complain ether network bridge is not available. Reading vmplayer document I discovered vmplayer always try to build ether network bridge using the first ethernet device, presumably eth0. My eth0 no longer exist and that's why vmplayer doesn't work. The suggested solution is to let me start VMWorkstation and configure it to use eth1. But I don't have VMWorkstation, it's too expensive for me, if I buy a copy of VMWorkstation to fix this issue I can use the money to buy some new computers! Then next solution I think is to make SuSE use ifname "eth0" for the new on-bard card. I noticed dmesg said something strange: zhangweiwu@joe:~> dmesg | grep -i eth 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf0a16400, 00:13:8f:dd:cc:03, IRQ 201 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101' eth0 renamed to eth1 eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 bridge-eth0: peer interface eth0 not found, will wait for it to come up bridge-eth0: attached Seems the on-board card /was/ eth0, it's getting renamed to eth1 for some reason. This behavior is not noticed on other distros. I think I can solve my problem by disabling this rename. I am using traditional ifup and I tried using Network Manager wouldn't help (rename still happen). How can I disable renaming eth0 to eth1? Unfortunately vmplayer is vital to my business; I cannot live a week without Windows that runs on it (live a day without Windows is okay). Too many business application rely on it. Name a few: taobao (monoplay c2c online-trading site in China), governmental tax office website (if I say I cannot pay tax because they require windows, I'll eat tickets), mandatory ICP registration website (without it the website is blocked by GFW). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org