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On Wednesday 12 December 2012 09:51 PM, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> OK so I'm now running udev-196-r1; booting fine now. |
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> upon reboot: |
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> net.eth0 [ stopped ] |
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> net.eth3 [ started ] |
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> netmount [ stopped ] |
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> sshd [ stopped ] |
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> eth0 is the mobo ethernet port, and it is fried. |
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> I have not used it in years. eth3 is an add on 100M |
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> ethernet card that has worked flawlessly. It is |
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> working fined still. |
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> /etc/conf.d/eth3 is set up and works just fine. |
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> The easiest thing to do to fix this problem is |
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> unmap the eth0 hardware. Where best to do that? |
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> from lspci: |
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> 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) <mobo> |
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> 1:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation |
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> DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) |
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> Ideas on how to best fix this? Make the Nvidia ethernet chip |
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> invisible and the dec ethernet chip will automaticall be eth0? |
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> Other ideas? |
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> James |
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Well, most motherboards give BIOS (UEFI?) option to disable some |
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hardware that's present onboard. |
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I've a relatively old machine, so don't know what's the thing with UEFI. |
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My PC's BIOS has option to disable many things like Ethernet, Audio, |
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Serial Port, etc. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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