ksdevice should support selection by MAC

[Floris]

Currently you can only select a different Ethernet interface by specifying the interface name with the boot parameter "ksdevice=eth1".

It would be nice if selection by MAC-address was also supported, e.g.: "ksdevice=11:22:33:44:55:66"

This is already supported by Centos and Fedora, but currently does not work with Ubuntu.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options#ksdevice

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Yes. For my own later reference, see agy's patch in bug 56679 for a way in which ksdevice could do this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package netcfg - 1.68ubuntu1

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netcfg (1.68ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - Set default hostname to 'ubuntu'.
    - Drop priority of netcfg/get_domain to medium for non-static
      configurations.
    - Use 'auto <interface>' for all interfaces, dropping allow-hotplug
      which doesn't work with current udev.
    - Bump the DHCP timeout to 30 seconds.
    - Build for armhf and ppc64.
  * Merge upstream IPv6 branch (not yet mergeable in Debian since it's
    waiting for ifupdown 0.7). Thanks to Matt Palmer for the bulk of this
    work.
  * Backport from trunk:
    - Explicitly ignore some errors to placate -Wunused-result.
    - Adjust start_dhcp_client to placate -Wformat-security.
    - Handle failure to read a pid from the wpasupplicant pid file.
  * Use isc-dhcp-client-udeb on all architectures.

netcfg (1.68) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Updated translations ]
  * Czech (cs.po) by Miroslav Kure
  * Basque (eu.po)
  * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier

netcfg (1.67) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reuploading with all the translations

netcfg (1.66) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Strip trailing dots from domain when writing to /etc/hosts
    (LP: #255117).

  [ Gaudenz Steinlin ]
  * Include WPA support. Thanks to Glen Saberton and Darren Salt
    for the patch. (Closes: #327309)

  [ Updated translations ]
  * Hebrew (he.po) by Lior Kaplan
  * Macedonian (mk.po) by Arangel Angov
  * Sinhala (si.po) by Danishka Navin

netcfg (1.65) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Samuel Thibault ]
  * Disable find_bootif_iface on hurd-i386, as it will not work (and even
    compile).

  [ Christian Perrier ]
  * Fix in Russian translation. Closes: #630523

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Actually declare netcfg/network-manager template.

netcfg (1.64) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Appease -Wunused-but-set-variable warning.
  * Fix fd leak in ethtool-lite.
  * Fix file handle leak in no_default_route's Hurd case.
  * Assign NETCFG_VERSION and NETCFG_BUILD_DATE using := rather than =; this
    is more efficient, and also avoids inconsistent build times being
    reported in the case where the build crossed a minute boundary.
  * Rearrange BOOTIF handling to allow us to handle the case where
    netcfg/choose_interface is preseeded with an Ethernet hardware address
    (LP: #708908). The latter case should work on kFreeBSD as well.
  * Also release lease at end of install when using isc-dhcp-client.
  * Merge from Ubuntu:
    - Call /usr/lib/NetworkManager/ifblacklist_migrate.sh from
      finish-install if present, so that 'auto dhcp' interfaces are disabled
      if network-manager is in use. May be preseeded away with
      netcfg/network-manager. (Thanks, Matt Palmer; closes: #614884.)

  [ Wouter Verhelst ]
  * Move 50release-dhcp-lease to 97release-dhcp-lease, so that the
    network isn't brought down before the target is unmounted, which
    breaks installing to a network target such as NBD.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:53:45 +0100