Hi kj, On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:50:04PM +0100, kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just updated an Etch server to linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7 (from -5-) and > after a reboot network won't come up. The network card is an Intel > 100mbit, uses the e100 driver. The driver loads, but trying to bring > eth0 up gives me a "does not exist" error. > > After much back and forth fiddling and replacing the card without any > luck, I remembered this has happened before, and by accident I found out > the previous time that the interface number has changed. So I checked. > Sure as bob, it was now eth4... > > Why does this happen? I imagine there's some of caching of the MAC > address going on, and I'm worried this might expire at some point. I don't know the exact reason, but I believe it to be responsability of udev. Probably the new Kernel detects the card differently. If udev is correctly running, you should have a file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules containing entries for each network-device. If you change there "eth4" to "eth0", it should work.
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