Re: Second question for 2008
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:48:10PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> The connection is cable (Comcast.) The problem is that most forms of Debian
> reverse the logical names of my nic devices. eth0 becomes eth1 and eth1
> becomes eth0.
Take a look in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and fix the
mapping from MAC address to interface name.
> I determine this from comparing the MAC numbers shown in ifconfig. I
> have since installed Kubunu from the Kubuntu live cdrom (latest
> unstable version) and that configured the nics correctly. Knoppix
> also identifies the nics correctly but an HD installation of Knoppix
> is not trivial. I no longer have a conventional Debian partition up
> but I suppose I could create one just to read off the lspci results.
lspci results shouldn't vary from distribution to distribution
> The error message is of course, "network not found."
I do not understand the "of course", as I have never seen this error
message in ten years of networking with various Linux systems.
Please give an exact example of what you are doing to obtain this
error message.
Greetings
Marc
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