On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:59 +0100, Allen Fensome wrote: > Hi. > > I have just restarted my sarge server for the first time in several months and > now the eth0: inteface is dead. (I have, during the intervening months, > regularly updated with aptitude). > > It's an RTL8201BL built into an Elitegroup L4S8A2 mainboard. > > The /etc/network/interaces stuff still looks as I would expect. Also, if I > try to manually configure the interface with something along the lines of > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > I get errors such as these.... > > SIOCSIFADDR: no such device > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > which leads me to believe that this is a low level hardware problem. > > Any suggestions? I'm relatively new to debian (more experience with Gentoo) > and I'm a bit lost as to where to look next. Have you tailed /var/log/syslog? Does lo come up as expected? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" Mussolini
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