New Network Card... >>

Nebetsu · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 229 Location: Canada

So my old network card had the biscuit and died. Not a problem. I dropped another one in there. I know it works because I'm using it in Windows. The problem is: Linux won't see it. It says something about check the kernel or something module and how it fails to mount eth0. Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's at the end before it goes to the login screen and it flashes pretty quick.

Sadako · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

You need to know the nic's chipset so you can include the right driver for it in the kernel.
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Veldrin · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

two things happened. on one hand, udev "hardwires" a physical card to a logical - i.e your old card was eth0, so your new one will be eth1. udev distinguishes one nic from another through their mac address. and this also screwed up your rc-scripts, which try to initialize a nic which is not there.
second problem, as mentioned above, it that the kernel does not know how to handle this card. if you are using generic genkernel, you can ignore that. otherwise use lspci to fin out what card you have.

to fix your problem, edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. basically remove the first rule, and change the NAME of the second to eth0.

cheers
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Nebetsu · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 229 Location: Canada

Internet works, but now it thinks it's 1:59PM (which it's not.)

Veldrin · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

what does date show (is "localtime" set?)? how did you set the time in the first place? by hand, or through ntp?

Nebetsu · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 229 Location: Canada