Where are my other devices? eth1 and eth2 are away! :(

Question

hello!
yesterday, before upgrading the system (pacman -Syu - think it was udev etc.) i had the devices eth0, eth1, eth2 and sit0. eth2 was my wireless (ipw2200) device. now, after reboot, all devices but eth0 and sit0 are away. what's happened? any ideas? where i can get an older version of udev? i have no old udev-pkg in the pacman-cache. i also had renamed the /etc/sysctl.conf because of errors at bootup.
kernel26 2.6.12.2-1
ipw2200 1.0.4-4
udev 060-1
sorry for my english

Answer 1

tomk wrote:Not an ipw user myself, but I dn't think this is a udev problem - udev doesn't touch network interfaces.
I thought so as well. But since yesterday's udev update, hotplug is definitively broken for me on both machines.
Obviously hotplug doesn't load modules and bring up interfaces any more. I don't know how this is related to udev, but just look at this:
[07/04/05 01:45] synchronizing package lists
[07/04/05 01:45] starting full system upgrade
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.37-1 -> 1.38-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.10.1-1 -> 2.10.2-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded gnome-menus (2.10.1-2 -> 2.10.2-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded gnome-panel (2.10.1-3 -> 2.10.2-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded heimdal (0.6.4-1 -> 0.6.5-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded pmount (0.7.1-1 -> 0.9.3-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded udev (058-4 -> 060-1)
[07/04/05 01:48] upgraded wine (20050419-1 -> 20050628-1)
and this:
[07/04/05 01:45] synchronizing package lists
[07/04/05 01:45] starting full system upgrade
[07/04/05 01:47] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.37-1 -> 1.38-1)
[07/04/05 01:47] upgraded heimdal (0.6.4-1 -> 0.6.5-1)
[07/04/05 01:47] upgraded udev (058-4 -> 060-1)
Edit:
This is from /etc/start_udev
case "$(uname -r)" in
2.6.[0-9]|2.6.[0-9][!0-9]*) ;;
*) echo "/sbin/udevsend" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug ;;
esac
So there is a relation between hotplug and udev, because udevsend handles hotplug requests. It also did so with udev 058-4, but 058-4 worked perfectly.