From: "Geo." 

FWIW, windows does this too, it names them "local area connection
1", 2, 3, etc and if you don't uninstall it before you pull the card
you have to edit the registry to get rid of the darn things. Oh and they
are invisible if the card is not in the machine so you can only tell they
are there by the number of the current one.

Geo.

"Ad"  wrote in
message news:45e57460$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> Linux would benefit greatly by a beefing up of the GUI OS tools
>>
>
> It's simple things such as this i.e. "Assign a name to a hardware network
> device".
>
> At the mo if you change cards then it is likely you will not be able to
> reuse the same eth name w/o all this messing which is simply silly.
>
> With the debians it's much much simpler but hey.
>
>
> Adam

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