[arch-general] Strange isse with my arch usb install

[phani]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:35:35 +0530, kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> HI all
> i've just completed a fresh install of arch on a new pendrive I just  
> bought.
> The install went smoothly, until I try to access the internet. I setup  
> net-auto-wireless with my home wireless network, and netcfg returns with  
> this error. No such interface: wlan0. Checking dmesg with "dmesg | grep  
> -i wlan0" yields the following. Systemd-udevd: renaming network  
> interface wlan0 to wlo2
>
> This has never happened to me before, so I tried my ethernet port. That  
> failed too, no internet connection. Dmesg again reveals: systemd-udevd:  
> renaming network interface eth0 to enps0." This usb drive is fully  
> updated as of 12:15 a.m jan 21, 2013, stable, no testing repos enabled,  
> multilib enabled. I'm using kernel v3.6.11. I've run into this situation  
> before and I've managed to resolve it by installing nss-myhostname.  
> However, that was when I tried to install from my main hdd, which has  
> testing repos enabled to my usb drive without enabling testing repos.  
> That caused conflicts with a newer kernel, v3.7.2 and systemd 197-4,  
> which conflicted with nss-myhostname. I tried to do the same today, only  
> to find out that systemd seems to contain nss-myhostname, because pacman  
> -S nss-myhostname tries to pull in systemd itself. I'm completely  
> stumped. Googling around doesn't seem to turn up any results, My search  
> term was, udev renames wlan0 to wlo2. Any help would really be  
> appreciated. I'm trying to create a usb drive to use as a diagnostic  
> distro for my fiance's windows computer, virus scanning, password  
> recovery, etc.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>

did you look at this:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024231.html
([arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197)

or this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1219361
(forum: Index » Kernel & Hardware » systemd-udevd renames network  
interfaces)

-- 
phani.