I want to say that there's scripts that do stuff like this, but
unfortunately I don't know exactly how to do this. Hopefully someone who
does will speak up. I would like to know more about these scripts and what
all they can do.
ciao
James S.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Atu <atucelu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a PC with built-in ethernet support. When I installed lenny, I
> didn't
> have network connectivity (I didn't have my external networking hardware
> yet), so I just chose "no network" to make the installer stop pestering me
> about ethernet detection, updates and so on. The installation went fine.
>
> Now I have all my networking hardware in place, and it works (tested with
> another computer). I want to add network functionality to my lenny-PC, but
> I
> can't bring eth0 up with "ifup eth0":
>
> #ifup eth0
> [...]
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> #
>
> lspci -v sees the ethernet chip on the mainboard though. At least it tells
> me
> the precise model number. I can load the kernel module ("e1000") for this
> ethernet chip or not, the error message stays the same.
>
> It's not a DNS problem, ping (to a numerical address) fails.
>
> I tried googling, and there are plenty of occurences of this error message,
> but on every single google link the problem is due to virtualization
> (VMWare
> mostly). Whereas in my case there is no virtualization involved. It's root
> on
> the console in my case. So google found nothing helpful.
>
> How do I repeat the "install network" part of the installer?
>
> I configured /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname and /etc/network/interfaces.
>
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