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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netmount; sshd borked
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:00:07
Message-Id: 1355349516.22292.12.camel@moriah
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] netmount; sshd borked by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 Best would be to delete/move the module for that hardware, and
2 de-configure it from the kernel.
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6 remap ethX manually using /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
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8 BillK
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12 On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 22:12 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
13 > On Wednesday 12 December 2012 09:51 PM, James wrote:
14 > >
15 > > Hello,
16 > >
17 > > OK so I'm now running udev-196-r1; booting fine now.
18 > >
19 > > upon reboot:
20 > > net.eth0 [ stopped ]
21 > > net.eth3 [ started ]
22 > > netmount [ stopped ]
23 > > sshd [ stopped ]
24 > >
25 > > eth0 is the mobo ethernet port, and it is fried.
26 > > I have not used it in years. eth3 is an add on 100M
27 > > ethernet card that has worked flawlessly. It is
28 > > working fined still.
29 > >
30 > > /etc/conf.d/eth3 is set up and works just fine.
31 > >
32 > > The easiest thing to do to fix this problem is
33 > > unmap the eth0 hardware. Where best to do that?
34 > >
35 > > from lspci:
36 > > 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) <mobo>
37 > >
38 > > 1:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation
39 > > DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
40 > >
41 > > Ideas on how to best fix this? Make the Nvidia ethernet chip
42 > > invisible and the dec ethernet chip will automaticall be eth0?
43 > >
44 > > Other ideas?
45 > >
46 > > James
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48 > >
49 >
50 > Well, most motherboards give BIOS (UEFI?) option to disable some
51 > hardware that's present onboard.
52 > I've a relatively old machine, so don't know what's the thing with UEFI.
53 > My PC's BIOS has option to disable many things like Ethernet, Audio,
54 > Serial Port, etc.
55 >