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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