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Fedora 15 or 16: New NIC Names

Recently I installed Fedora 15 on a standalone system to do some testing. This system has ASUS motherboard with a single integrated Atheros 8131 Gigabit Ethernet NIC. Here is the relevant output from ipconfig -a: p33p1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E0:CB:4E:1A:F6:D5 inet addr:192.168.0.114 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::e2cb:4eff:fe1a:f6d5/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:62680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:37533 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:94004479 (89.6 MiB) TX bytes:2446588 (2.3 MiB) Interrupt:44 I expected to see eth0; instead the NIC was named p33p1. The lsmod utility showed that the correct kernel module, i.e. atl1c.ko, was