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From: Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:00:44
Message-Id: 9b1675090705040750ve83eecdj9d4e8d3d9ca3bd1d@mail.gmail.com
1 Sorry for not replying earlier. Yes, I found it to be a fireware
2 ethernet. Why udev would put that first makes no sense.
3
4 I found another email on the list where someone had the same problem.
5
6 Thanks.
7
8 On 5/2/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
9 > On Wed, 2 May 2007 21:43:13 -0600, Trenton Adams wrote:
10 >
11 > > I have an ethernet controller that worked until I updated my udev to
12 > > the latest version.
13 >
14 > > It shows up as follows from ifconfig
15 > > eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
16 > > 00-11-D8-00-00-7D-66-26-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
17 > > inet addr:192.168.20.2 Bcast:192.168.20.255
18 >
19 > > I don't understand what is happening. It sets my IP just fine, but
20 > > the MAC address is WEIRD and there's no link.
21 >
22 > That MAC address looks like it could be a Firewire ethernet interface.
23 > Does ifconfig -a show your correct MAC address on another interface? If
24 > so, it is probably your persistent net rules messing things up, but if
25 > you don't use Firewire for ethernet, it's probably easiest to disable the
26 > eth1394 module.
27 >
28 >
29 > --
30 > Neil Bothwick
31 >
32 > Drive not ready: (R)etry (G)o to Impulse (C)all Engineering
33 >
34 >
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