Our net card was also build as a module.... Volker, did you include
your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules?
N.
On 4/6/13, Nick Khamis <sym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh dear what did I start!@!@! I'm sorry, I did not know this was a
> machine brewing. Don't follow the mailing list all that often. I
> updated 3 x86 machines with no problem but the 64 just took a crap...
> I agree! Should have read the notes.
>
> N.
>
> On 4/6/13, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>
>>> Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick:
>>>> On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>>>> Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
>>>>>> Hi, Nick.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote:
>>>>>>> After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the
>>>>>>> servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message:
>>>>>>> /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not
>>>>>>> found /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists command not found
>>>>>>> Errror: Interface eth0 does not exist
>>>>>>> Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel modules for your
>>>>>>> hardware
>>>>>>> # lsmod
>>>>>>> module used by
>>>>>>> tg3 0
>>>>>>> lbphy tg3
>>>>>>> eth0
>>>>>>> flags=4098<broadcast,multicast> mtu 1500
>>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>> interrupt=16
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> lo
>>>>>>> flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436
>>>>>>> inet 127.0.0.1 BROADCAST 255.255.255.0
>>>>>>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 <host>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and
>>>>>>> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to
>>>>>>> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!!
>>>>>> No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody.
>>>>>> udev-200 now renames eth0, eth1, .... to something else, dependent
>>>>>> upon
>>>>>> complicated rules. In my case eth0 has become p6p1, though many
>>>>>> people
>>>>>> seem to have got longer names.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have a look in /sys/class/net and see if your new name is there. If
>>>>>> so, edit all your config files containing eth0, switching to the new
>>>>>> name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once you got that done and things work again, take a deep breath and
>>>>>> have a look at the most recent Gentoo news item ($ eselect news read)
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> explains it all, more or less. Then decide whether the above is a
>>>>>> long
>>>>>> term solution, and if not start reading docs about writing udev
>>>>>> rules.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, it's a pain in the backside. But at least with Gentoo, you've a
>>>>>> good chance of fixing things like this quickly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Your help is greatly appreciated,
>>>>>>> Nick
>>>>> in my case it is still eth0:
>>>>> ifconfig
>>>>> eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>>> inet 192.168.178.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
>>>>> 192.168.178.255
>>>>> inet6 fe80::1e6f:65ff:fe87:6f6a prefixlen 64 scopeid
>>>>> 0x20<link>
>>>>> ether 1c:6f:65:87:6f:6a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
>>>>> RX packets 4647305 bytes 6693078055 (6.2 GiB)
>>>>> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
>>>>> TX packets 2943816 bytes 226871998 (216.3 MiB)
>>>>> TX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>>>>>
>>>>> sys-fs/udev
>>>>> Available versions: (~)168-r2[1] [M]171-r10 197-r8^t{tbz2}
>>>>> (~)198-r6^t{tbz2} (~)199-r1^t{tbz2} 200^t{tbz2} **9999^t {acl
>>>>> action_modeswitch build debug doc edd extras +firmware-loader floppy
>>>>> gudev hwdb introspection keymap +kmod +openrc +rule_generator selinux
>>>>> static-libs test}
>>>>> Installed versions: 200^t{tbz2}(18:30:31
>>>>> 29.03.2013)(firmware-loader gudev hwdb keymap kmod openrc -acl -doc
>>>>> -introspection -selinux -static-libs)
>>>>>
>>>>> I did keep net.eth0....
>>>> Is your eth0 NIC a module (modprobed), or built in the kernel?
>>> r8169 41918 0
>>> module
>>
>> For me its built in.
>>
>> - Jörg
>>
>>
>>
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