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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:29:57
Message-Id: 49bf44f10810021029n519dba69hd42e5c3a68a7fe58@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up by Adrian Pablo Ali
1 >>>> I have this:
2 >>>>
3 >>>> # lspci
4 >>>> 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
5 >>>> [Cyclone] (rev 34)
6 >>>> 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
7 >>>> [Cyclone] (rev 30)
8 >>>>
9 >>>> but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to
10 >>>> investigate this?
11 >>>>
12 >>>
13 >>> Is that ifconfig, or ifcongif -a ?
14 >>>
15 >>> Or in a less pedantic answer, have you started eth1?
16 >>>
17 >>
18 >> I didn't think that through, sorry. I think this is what I should have
19 >> posted:
20 >>
21 >> # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
22 >> * Starting eth1
23 >> * Bringing up eth1
24 >> * 192.168.1.1
25 >> * network interface eth1 does not exist
26 >> * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ]
27 >>
28 >> - Grant
29 >>
30 >>
31 >
32 > forgive my basic English.
33 >
34 > Look in:
35 >
36 > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
37 >
38 > and see if another card is not marked as eth1 in the rules, if this is so,
39 > it removes the rule and restarts. This happens when you switch card, check
40 > to see if the macaddress are well allocated.
41
42 I switched some stuff around in that file, rebooted, and it's fixed.
43 Thank you very much.
44
45 - Grant