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Best would be to delete/move the module for that hardware, and |
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remap ethX manually using /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules |
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On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 22:12 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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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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