Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone.
Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up. I googled around and found a hint that the Firewire interface can occupy eth0, and indeed, eth1 was present (which I assumed to be the NIC), but replacing eth0 by eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces didn't work. Also undoing that change, blacklisting eth1394 in /etc/modules.d/blacklist and rebooting didn't solve it. After the reboot, I noticed that 8139too wasn't loaded, so we modprobe'd it; then ifdown eth0, ifup eth0. No success. Maybe it's useful to know that dmesg says that eth0 is a Realtek 8139. I don't know what to do -- do you? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
