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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