you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is the
software/hardware that are problematic
2010/10/16 Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com>
> The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be
> dead. At boot, I get the following message:
>
> Setting up networking....
> Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Failed to bring up eth1.
>
> Do you think it's a hardware problem?
>
> The file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules is the following:
>
>
> # Firewire device 00030d53255c8616 (ohci1394)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:53:25:5c:86:16",
> NAME="eth0"
>
> # PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:33:02:17",
> NAME="eth1
>
>
> The command `ifconfig -a' gives the following output:
>
>
> # ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> [...]
>
>
> , whereas it used to have also eth1:
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0D:33:02:17
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:201 Base address:0xd800
>
>
>
> /etc/network/interfaces is the following:
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth1
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 192.168.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>
> Please help with this issue, I need to know if the machine hardware needs
> to be
> repaired or it is only a configuration problem.
>
> Thanks
> Rodolfo
>
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