Traditional names of network devices

Posted: 2024-02-04 | Author: | Filed under: network, system | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Moving from Slackware to CRUX, I noticed that my network devices have weird names, such as enp4s0. What happened to the good old eth0? It did not bother me much at first, but… For example, I have a firewall script, where I specify adapter names, and it is a bit annoying to always check for the specific one, depending on the computer I am working on.
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LILO and nvme

Posted: 2020-10-31 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I recently upgraded to a 1 TB NVME drive and I have Windows 10 on it. The computer boots by default from another disk, a standard SSD, where Slackware -current is installed with LILO. The problem is that selecting Windows from LILO does not boot it. The screen just stays blank. If I specify in the BIOS that the NVME has boot priority, it boots fine.
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