On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43:47AM +0200, Meir Kriheli wrote: > Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > >Hi, > >Something is rotten in the kindom of Danemark. .. > >To complete the mistery. After reset to factory defaults, the router worked > >again as new. An this morning, after reactivating the on-board NIC, > >everything works. > >Any hint will be most welcome. Cheers, Avraham > > > > udev has a rule which binds MAC addresses to interfaces (prevents the > annoyance of having interfaces names changed on machines with several > similar NICs after kernel upgrades). The downside: changing NICS > requires modification of that rule. > > If you have udev installed, look for the file: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > > > If you have it, you'll need to change the MAC address for eth0 to the > new one (or remove that rule). > > HTH > -- > Meir Kriheli >
Hi, Thanks a lot Geoff and Meir. If I undertood Geoff correctly, it pays to avoid using the on-board NIC (this time it recovered), as next time, the misbehaviour of the router might damage the motherboard. I changed therefore the line in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules as recommended by Meir and everything works. I just returned from town with a EDIMAX NIC, as I do not rely on that old card (I used it only, because, following Murphy, the trouble started late in the evening). It happens to be based on a RTL8139 chip. Thanks again, Avraham -- Please avoid sending to this address Excell or Powerpoint attachments. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
