Am Mittwoch 19 August 2009 21:10:27 schrieb Michael Sullivan:
> A couple of weeks ago my ten year-old(ish) server box died.  I've wanted
> to replace it for a long time, and last week we finally did.  We took it
> to our local computer shop to have a new hard drive installed, as the
> old one used an IDE hard drive and the new PC's motherboard doesn't
> support that.  The tech cloned the IDE drive onto a SATA drive and
> installed the new SATA.  We got it back this morning.  I've re-built the
> kernel several times over the past few hours, and I cannot get net.eth0
> to work when not booting from the livecd.  I've got the error message,
> lspci and lsmod from the last boot off the hard drive (though I had to
> boot with the livecd in order to copy it to my main PC to send it to
> you).  The error message is:
>
>  * Starting eth0
>  *   Bringing up eth0
>  *     192.168.1.2
>  *     network interface eth0 does not exist
>  *     Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)
> [ !! ]
>
>
> The old box used 8139too, but e1000 is what I use on my newer machines.
> I modprobed it, and still the error message didn't change.  Here's
> lspci:

No e1000 here:

> 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
> and here's lsmod:

Wow, that's a lot, do you really need all this? But here, too, e1000 not used:

> Module                  Size  Used by
> e1000                 102232  0

Use counter is 0.

See also my other reply.

Bye...

        Dirk

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