biosdevname software package provides apply BIOS-given names to network devices, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install biosdevname
biosdevname is installed in your system.
Make ensure the biosdevname package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep biosdevname *
You will get with biosdevname package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Miscellaneous |
| Package | biosdevname |
| Version | 0.3.11-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | apply BIOS-given names to network devices |
| Sub Section | misc |