On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 08:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can no longer connect to the Internet from my home PC. I suspect that my
> DSL modem was damaged by lightning but I can't confirm this.
>
> My PC is multiple-boot with Fedora 7, Ubuntu 8.04, and Windows ME. I mainly
> use Fedora. My ISP is Verizon DSL. My modem is a Westell 6100-E90 (wired)
> provided by Verizon.
>
> I get solid DSL sync on my modem, but eth0 doesn't come up on Fedora or
> Ubuntu. Ethtool eth0 correctly identifies my NIC as 100 Mbps and reports
> "link-detected = yes".
>
My damaged NIC was an Intel PRO/100 M. It used the E100 driver. The
network interface used to come up as eth0.
I removed the Intel PRO/100 M and replaced it with a Netgear FA310 TX
NIC. It uses the Tulip driver. Under both Fedora 7 and Ubuntu 8.04 the
network interface is coming up as eth1. (For a reason unknown to me,
udev is renaming the replacement NIC).
Under Fedora 7, eth1 comes up, but I can't access the Internet.
Under Ubuntu 8.04, eth1 comes up, and I can access the Internet. But my
IP address is being assigned by DHCP. With my previous NIC, I had
configured both Ubuntu and Fedora to use a static IP address. This
configuration was done via OS GUI, apparently bound to eth0.
The following is from Fedora /var/log/messages:
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15 (Feb
27, 2007)
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled
at IRQ 11
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] ->
Link [LNKG] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000
status 7829 advertising 01e1.
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at
MMIO 0xfc9ffc00, 00:A0:CC:5F:7B:A1, IRQ 11.
Jul 26 22:55:43 alweiner kernel: net eth1: device_rename:
sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
Also from Fedora:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] aweiner]# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5F:7B:A1
inet addr:192.168.1.47 Bcast:255.255.255.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe5f:7ba1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:499 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:30514 (29.7 KiB) TX bytes:914 (914.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00
In order to access the Internet from Fedora, and to get both Fedora and
Ubuntu to again use static IP, do I need to do:
1. Redo my network configuration definitions to be based on eth1 instead
of eth0
or
2. Somehow get my NIC to be seen as eth0 instead of eth1.
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