Fixed NIC names

Submitted by gunnar on
Question

I have two NIC's, one wired and one wireless. On each boot SuSE 9.3 seems to randomly assign eth0 to one of them and eth1 to the other. It doesn't matter that the wireless is disabled. How do I assign a fixed name to each NIC?

Answer

You need to assign a "persistent name" to each NIC.

In "/etc/sysconfig/network" you will find a file named ifcfg-something for each NIC. Edit the ones whose names end with MAC adresses and add the line

PERSISTENT_NAME=xxx

to one of them, and

PERSISTENT_NAME=yyy

to the other, then run

SuSEconfig

and

/etc/init.d/network restart.

Space after title in Garland node listings

Submitted by gunnar on
Question

How do I get a bit of space between the title and first node in garland node listings?

Answer

Edit the node.tpl.php template in the garland theme and add a <br /> before the node title.

    <?php if ($page == 0): ?>
          <br />
          <h2><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="<?php print $title ?>"><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
    <?php endif; ?>

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