Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Administration Manual page 249

2 Go to the Hardware tab. The current device name is shown in Udev Rules. Click
Change.
3 Select whether udev should identify the card by its MAC Address or Bus ID. The
current MAC address and bus ID of the card are shown in the dialog.
4 To change the device name, check the Change Device Name option and edit the
name.
5 Click OK and Next.
6 To activate the configuration, click OK.
Changing Network Card Kernel Driver
For some network cards, several kernel drivers may be available. If the card is already
configured, YaST allows you to select a kernel driver to be used from a list of available
suitable drivers. It is also possible to specify options for the kernel driver. To set these
options with YaST, proceed as follows:
1 Select a card from the list of detected cards in the Overview tab of the YaST
Network Settings module and click Edit.
2 Go to the Hardware tab.
3 Select the kernel driver to be used in Module Name. Enter any options for the
selected driver in Options in the form option=value . If more options are
used, they should be space-separated.
4 Click OK and Next.
5 To activate the configuration, click OK.
Activating the Network Device
If you use the traditional method with ifup, you can configure your device to either start
during boot, on cable connection, on card detection, manually or never. To change device
start-up, proceed as follows:
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