Re: eth0: woes

[Allen Fensome <allenfensome@gmx.net>]

Hey thanks for the quick responses.

/sbin/depmod -a gives a whole load statements like this: *** Unresolved 
symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/kernel/net/{lots of different stuff 
here}

/sbin/modprobe 8139too  gives me 3 insmod failed errors. For 
__netdev_watchdog_up_R7d3cbbe7,  mii.o and 8139too.

The nic does, however, still seem to be listed in  /proc/iomem

Further suggestions?  Should I assume that there is a problem with the kernel 
modules supporting the nic?



On Sunday 06 February 2005 22:59, 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.