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Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0



On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:37:19 -0500
Keith Steensma <kas@airways-consulting.com> wrote:

> I have never seen this addressed in the mailing list, so I'll have to 
> ask for help
> 
> I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek 
> 8139 network card.  The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card 
> (that I pulled from a working test machine).  When I rebooted the 
> server, the 3Com card was no configured and I ended up with no ETH0 
> (rather important since there is on one NIC in the server).  The
> correct module is compiled in the (stock) kernel.  I even tried
> putting the driver name into the /etc/modules file but that didn't
> work either.
> 
> I took the same machine with a different (spare) hard drive and 
> installed Lenny from the InstallCD and the 3Com NIC was found and 
> configured.  The ETH0 worked fine, but not with the original Debian 
> install (that was on the server).
> 
> What is it that the install routine does that finds the NIC's.  Is
> this a command line (something) that can (should) be run manually
> 
> Thanks,  Keith
> 
 
ethx devices always correspond to the one NIC they were created for.
Your new NIC is working as eth1, I assume.

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