Our net card was also build as a module.... Volker, did you include your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules?
N. On 4/6/13, Nick Khamis <sym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh dear what did I start!@!@! I'm sorry, I did not know this was a > machine brewing. Don't follow the mailing list all that often. I > updated 3 x86 machines with no problem but the 64 just took a crap... > I agree! Should have read the notes. > > N. > > On 4/6/13, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: >>>> On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>>> Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>>>>> Hi, Nick. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: >>>>>>> After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the >>>>>>> servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: >>>>>>> /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not >>>>>>> found /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists command not found >>>>>>> Errror: Interface eth0 does not exist >>>>>>> Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel modules for your >>>>>>> hardware >>>>>>> # lsmod >>>>>>> module used by >>>>>>> tg3 0 >>>>>>> lbphy tg3 >>>>>>> eth0 >>>>>>> flags=4098<broadcast,multicast> mtu 1500 >>>>>>> .... >>>>>>> interrupt=16 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> lo >>>>>>> flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 >>>>>>> inet 127.0.0.1 BROADCAST 255.255.255.0 >>>>>>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 <host> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and >>>>>>> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to >>>>>>> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!! >>>>>> No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. >>>>>> udev-200 now renames eth0, eth1, .... to something else, dependent >>>>>> upon >>>>>> complicated rules. In my case eth0 has become p6p1, though many >>>>>> people >>>>>> seem to have got longer names. >>>>>> >>>>>> Have a look in /sys/class/net and see if your new name is there. If >>>>>> so, edit all your config files containing eth0, switching to the new >>>>>> name. >>>>>> >>>>>> Once you got that done and things work again, take a deep breath and >>>>>> have a look at the most recent Gentoo news item ($ eselect news read) >>>>>> which >>>>>> explains it all, more or less. Then decide whether the above is a >>>>>> long >>>>>> term solution, and if not start reading docs about writing udev >>>>>> rules. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, it's a pain in the backside. But at least with Gentoo, you've a >>>>>> good chance of fixing things like this quickly. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Your help is greatly appreciated, >>>>>>> Nick >>>>> in my case it is still eth0: >>>>> ifconfig >>>>> eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >>>>> inet 192.168.178.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast >>>>> 192.168.178.255 >>>>> inet6 fe80::1e6f:65ff:fe87:6f6a prefixlen 64 scopeid >>>>> 0x20<link> >>>>> ether 1c:6f:65:87:6f:6a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) >>>>> RX packets 4647305 bytes 6693078055 (6.2 GiB) >>>>> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 >>>>> TX packets 2943816 bytes 226871998 (216.3 MiB) >>>>> TX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 >>>>> >>>>> sys-fs/udev >>>>> Available versions: (~)168-r2[1] [M]171-r10 197-r8^t{tbz2} >>>>> (~)198-r6^t{tbz2} (~)199-r1^t{tbz2} 200^t{tbz2} **9999^t {acl >>>>> action_modeswitch build debug doc edd extras +firmware-loader floppy >>>>> gudev hwdb introspection keymap +kmod +openrc +rule_generator selinux >>>>> static-libs test} >>>>> Installed versions: 200^t{tbz2}(18:30:31 >>>>> 29.03.2013)(firmware-loader gudev hwdb keymap kmod openrc -acl -doc >>>>> -introspection -selinux -static-libs) >>>>> >>>>> I did keep net.eth0.... >>>> Is your eth0 NIC a module (modprobed), or built in the kernel? >>> r8169 41918 0 >>> module >> >> For me its built in. >> >> - Jörg >> >> >> >