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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:28:26 -0500 |
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> Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> My dell laptop E6510 had its motherboard replaced (as it turned out, |
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>> for no good reason) and now the wired ethernet fails. |
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>> ajglap gottlieb # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart |
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>> * Bringing up interface eth0 |
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>> * ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist |
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>> * Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for |
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>> your hardware |
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>> * ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start |
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>> I am hoping it is some wrong setting in the bios, but the only one I |
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>> see says the ethernet can be disabled enabled enabled (with pxe) |
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>> I tried both of the enabled variants with the same outcome. |
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>> I don't think I changed the kernel during that time, but I did try two |
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>> older kernels; again with no change. I believe I have the correct |
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>> driver built into the kernel |
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>> ajglap gottlieb # lspci -v |
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>> [snip] |
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>> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit |
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>> Network Connection (rev 05) Subsystem: Dell Device 040b |
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>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42 |
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>> Memory at e9600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] |
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>> Memory at e9680000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] |
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>> I/O ports at 8040 [size=32] |
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>> Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2 |
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>> Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ |
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>> Capabilities: [e0] PCI Advanced Features |
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>> Kernel driver in use: e1000e |
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> Seeing as it's gentoo, my first guess is that the new motherboard |
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> doesn't have the same hardware as the old one - Dell can easily fit any |
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> wireless card with the same specs - and that you don't have the correct |
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> module loaded. |
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> In the BIOS the option you want is plain "enabled", if you need pxe you |
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> will certainly know all about that already. |
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> Any clues in dmesg about the hardware? |
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On that note, find the udev rule for persistent networking and wipe it. |
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