On Sun,30.Nov.08, 21:22:59, A. F. Cano wrote: > This is interesting. On my machine it is eth4, I have no idea why. > So, when I modified /etc/network/interfaces and replaced eth0 with eth4, > ifup eth4 now works. This is the only ethernet card in the machine. Damn, I missed a small detail I should have told you about: after each modprobe you should have checked 'ifconfig -a' (-a to show ALL cards, including those that are NOT active).
The name is easy to explain, just check /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > I have tested loading 8139too by itself and both 8139cp and 8139too. > No errors but ping fails with "Destination Host Unreachable" in both > cases. Interestingly, the LED at the back of the card flashes and > the LED at the network hub flashes, both when initiating the ping > locally or remotely. This sounds like network configuration problem. We'll need to see your /etc/network/interfaces /etc/resolv.conf (unless you have resolvconf installed) and explain your network setup. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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