Re: Second question for 2008
On Jan 23, 2008 2:48 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> 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. 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.
>
> The error message is of course, "network not found."
So, Kubuntu is working for you but Debian isn't because of how the
NICs are named?
cat /etc/iftab
That will mostly guide you on how to assign names with MACs.
Regards,
- Robert
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