on Sat, 17 Apr 2004 01:58:11PM -0700, Sarah Trefethen insinuated: > I installed a base image (testing, kernel 2.4.25-1) on a dell > Latitude D500 (laptop with centrino package) with no problem. > Essential hardware was all detected nicely and I was able to use my > ethernet device to connect to my friendly local DHCP server and > download additional packages and perform a full range of networky > type tasks. > > After the first reboot, however, trying to bring up the ethernet > devices yields this: "error when getting interface flags, no such > device" > > Anyone have any hints for me? I'm new to this.
make sure your /etc/network/interfaces has the eth0 stanza? could be
something as simple as:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
if not, try just adding that, and then restarting networking with an
`/etc/init.d/networking restart`.
hth,
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