[SGVLUG] switching eth0 driver

[John Jefferson Lowry IV]

Check out your udev rules. There probably is an entry for the old nic that
reserves the name "eth0". It is going to be somewhere in /etc/udev/, I
think. On Gentoo it is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Delete the
entry for the old card.

On 5/29/07, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/29/07, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To  minimize downtime of my homeserver (it's more than just a file
> > server since it collects and publishes the weather data, runs a few
> > media servers, etc) so I've been installing the latest Mandriva 2007.1
> > (similar to RedHat) onto a spare drive using a spare machine.  Tried
> > to swap the boot drive last night but having a problem trying to get
> > the network card recognized.   Looks like the old install (Mandriva
> > 2006) was installing the 8139too driver as eth0 but I guess I was
> > using a different card on the spare machine.  I added the line "alias
> > eth0 8139too' to /etc/modprobe.conf but I get an error saying device
> > eth0 not found and it keeps installing an entry for eth1.  Where is it
> > picking this up?  I've looked all over the place but can't find
> > anything obvious.  I can't run X on it right now so I can't use the
> > GUI tools but I do have a text console.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > claude
>
> I have run it this with a card I had newer kernels have for some
> reason dropped some pci ids from some of there drivers. I had the
> problem with a old card when I upgraded the kernel linux would no
> longer reconized the card.
>



-- 
John Lowry
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