On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:54 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I've been helping a friend over the phone who's trying to fix a >> networking problem. This machine was built a month ago running >> something like 2.6.39-gentoo-r2. Networking worked great. I do not >> know what driver it was using, but it worked great. >> >> Two weeks ago we updated the machine to 3.0-0-gentoo and I think >> networking was working fine however I never logged in and never tested >> the network interface. The owner believes it was working, at least for >> a while, but it isn't now. When we boot now we get the message: >> >> "Interface eth0 does not exist" >> >> which typically happens when you don't have the correct driver >> installed. The system is loading the e1000e driver but we're not able >> to start net.eth0. >> >> lspci -k says the e1000e driver is in use, and e1000e is in memory. >> >> We then tested again with the original 2.6.39 kernel and found that >> even with that kernel, which I absolutely know worked at one time >> because I built the machine over the Internet for him, it no longer >> works. That kernel is also loading e1000e. >> >> We then booted from the Gentoo LiveCD and found that the LiveCD is >> also loading e1000e and that with the LiveCD everything is working >> perfectly. I can ssh into the box, he can ping Google. Everything is >> cool with the e1000e driver using the Live CD, but not using the >> kernels we build. >> >> At this point I set up the chroot install environment, dropped in >> to build a new kernel. I did a make clean && make && make >> modules_install. Everything built fine. I copied it over to /boot, >> rebooted and still have the same problem. e1000e is loaded but says >> the the interface doesn't exist. >> >> The net.eth0 link exists in /etc/init.d, and trying to start >> networking using .etc.init.d/net.eth0 yields the same error. >> >> What am I doing wrong here? How come it used to work, and still >> works from the CD, but won't work from his old or new kernels? > > I bet udev renamed the device -- check and see if you have eth > anything. Udev does things like that. > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > cov...@ccs.covici.com > > Sounds likely. Since I cannot shell in I need to give him instructions. Are we talking about the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70persist-net.rules?
Thanks, Mark
