Re: Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel - SOLUTION

[Ken McCord <ken@themccords.com>]

Ken McCord wrote:
> Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped.
>
> Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 
> onboard Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will 
> detect an installed network card, but when networking is configured to 
> start, will not start it.  Here's the output of some commands from a 
> fresh boot:
>
> dmesg | grep eth0
> e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 5, MAC addr 
> 00:02:55:25:65:FB
>
> ifconfig eth0 up
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>
> Similar messages showing the network card being detected at boot, but 
> not configured will also occur if I disable the onboard Intel Ethernet 
> adapter, and install a PCI network card (I've tried a 3Com and a 
> tulip-based card).
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Well, it turns out I had the same problem as some other users described 
in other threads.  Editing the 
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file and removing the entries 
there and rebooting did the trick.  Thanks to everyone for their responses.

Ken