-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Martin,
I have discovered that he actually upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 (rather than a clean install) at the time this problem arose. Martin Visser wrote: > Definitely check out Scott's lspci suggestion - this will show if it > is a hardware problem 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 00:08.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 15) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) ..... This seems to indicate that it is detected. Also dmesg: [ 35.009005] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 35.009302] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 [ 35.009307] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered [ 35.009313] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [ 35.009649] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8836f00, 00:40:f4:b4:bb:df, IRQ 10 [ 35.009652] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' [ 35.011600] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) Same as in dmesg.0 etc. > As far as /etc/iftab goes, this is not used in Ubuntu 7.10 > anymore....this functionality is moved to hotplug,. and maybe causing > your prob. This file (iftab) is not present > As you said, the NIC was in when Ubuntu was installed. However, some > NICs for some curious reason do sometimes change MAC address between > powerups. > > Checkout the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules . If there > are lots of entries in their for different MAC addresses, there is > your problem. > > This file is generated during bootup by > /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. The suggestion at > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3816892 suggests to backup > and delete these two files. The system will then just assign ethernet > devices numbers in the order it finds them, and if it only every finds > one NIC then it will always be eth0 I emailed him the above paragraph and and received the return email saying: > did all as instructed! > to no avail! I would have suspected the hardware except that winXP (dual boot machine) has no problem connecting to and using the adsl connection. A very frustrating puzzle. Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTq2eybPcBAs9CE8RAh9lAJ91i0fGyowfJlHQ74ww1Bz2eF7tRwCdFH1K e6WnNojr72nMjQebPfokrYY= =v3tg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
