Re: Etch: network won't work

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Robert S wrote:

> I have cloned my installation of Etch onto another (ancient PII) system for
> backup purposes.  When the network starts on the second system I get
> messages like this:
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>
> .. and the network does not work (when I do 'ifconfig' I only get 'lo').  My
> network card is the same as on the original system - Realtek
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+.  The same modules are installed on both machines:
>
> $ lsmod |grep 8139
> 8139cp                 20736  0
> 8139too                24192  0
> mii                     5376  2 8139cp,8139too
>
> If I boot from an old 2.4 kernel the network works OK (but certain other
> things don't)- so the hardware is OK.
>
> Any clues?
>
> --

what happens if you do a ifconfig eth0 up ?
what are the contents of /etc/network/interfaces?
whats the output of lspci?

you might also want to try to add 8139cp to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and 
adding some of these boot options to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
irqpoll
pci=biosirq
pci=irqmasq

hth,
jeff

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