Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   
>> On 05/31/2011 05:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
>>> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I ask the guys over at
>>>>
>>>>     http://rpm.pbone.net/
>>>>
>>>> to add a line for FC14, FC15, RHEL6, and SL6 over on
>>>> their advanced search and they actually did.
>>>>
>>>> Now we can search for SL6 and RHEL6 specific
>>>> RPMS at pbone.  Very cool.
>>>>
>>>> -T
>>>>         
>>> Thanks very much indeed. I do some testing with FC15, now that it's out.
>>>
>>>       
>> You guys are all welcome!  Thank you for noticing.  :-)
>>
>> Nico,
>>
>> FC15 changed their network adapter naming convention.  See:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
>>
>> And, they substituted "nm-connection-editor" for "system-config-network".
>> My eth0 became p2p1.  "ifconfig -a" will show the new names.  (We will
>> probably see these changes in EL sometime soon.)
>>     
>
> This is not likely. This would be a substantial change to the most
> basic configuration tools on the installation media and their default
> interfaces. I would not expect to see a feature like that in an RHEL
> release, and thus in SL, until after  all the kinks are worked out of
> it in Fedora, and RHEL 7 and thus SL 7 is released.
>   
This is a feature in RHEL 6.1.  It is disabled by default except on 
certain Dell models.
You can find this in the Hardware Support section of the release notes:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Release_Notes/ar01s01.html

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