On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:37:19 -0500 Keith Steensma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have never seen this addressed in the mailing list, so I'll have to > ask for help > > I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek > 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card > (that I pulled from a working test machine). When I rebooted the > server, the 3Com card was no configured and I ended up with no ETH0 > (rather important since there is on one NIC in the server). The > correct module is compiled in the (stock) kernel. I even tried > putting the driver name into the /etc/modules file but that didn't > work either. > > I took the same machine with a different (spare) hard drive and > installed Lenny from the InstallCD and the 3Com NIC was found and > configured. The ETH0 worked fine, but not with the original Debian > install (that was on the server). > > What is it that the install routine does that finds the NIC's. Is > this a command line (something) that can (should) be run manually > > Thanks, Keith > ethx devices always correspond to the one NIC they were created for. Your new NIC is working as eth1, I assume. -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
