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At the risk of sounding like a complete buffoon, how do I know if I'm using udev?
I loaded up the pc with full noob install of slack 11.0 w/the 2.4 sata kernel. told package tool to load hotplug at boot time, then rebooted to run level 3, then installed huge 26 then rebooted.
I had to create a udev rule so that slack 11 would always assign one of two nic's the eth0 slot because all of the sudden the internet would just stop in the 2.6 kernel.
I guess the fact that I had to create a udev rule means that I'm using udev? Is this the case. the rc.udev is not executable in /etc/rc.d directory.
If I'm not using udev, should I be? So far the pc seems ok.
I'm using the 2.6.17.13 kernel with udev and without hotplug. So far, everything seems to work well, and I've used udev to implement persistent naming for some usb devices. Thus kernel 2.6 + udev seem to be a good combination as far as I can tell.
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