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Re: Ethernet card does not work after Mother Board Change



On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:51:01PM -0600, Butch Kemper wrote:
> 
> I built a system using 4.0r2 net-install and have kernel 2.6.18-5-k7 
> installed.
> 
> The motherboard failed and the replacement board has a different type 
> ethernet card.
> 
> In the kern.log file, I can see the ethernet card is recognized and 
> called eth0 but:

If you see eth0 in dmesg then there is an eth0.  Are you sure that it
doesn't get called eth1?

> 
>         The card is not connected to eth0 in ifconfig - there is no
>         eth0.
> 
Send us your /etc/network/interfaces

>         There is not an interrupt level in /proc/interrupts for the
>         ethernet card.
> 

if nothing is accessing the card, then there will be no interrupts.

>         If I try an ifup eth0, I get an error about a non-existant
>         device.
> 
> I tried entering the driver name in /etc/modules but that does not help.
> 
> I need some assistance on how to proceed to get the system to 
> properly setup the ethernet card.


I hate udev.

Doug.


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