From: "Geo." 

"Ad"  wrote in
message news:45e57402$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> I had a devil of a time on windows a while back with basically the same
> thing i.e. it would not let me (re)create an eth0 i.e. it kept creating
> "Local Area Connection 2", 3, 4 etc & no way to get back
to just "Local
> Area Connection".
>
> I can't remember what the fix was but it involved even more digging &
> tweaking & what have you.

it's one place in the registry (one entry) that you delete and then reboot
and it's gone. You had 4 places to kill it off in linux. That's makes linux
300% more difficult .

Geo.

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