Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 27/01/10 13:14:
I've been continuing my experimentation with backup and restore using
Ubuntu server 9.04.
Today I restored my system to completely different hardware to see how
it coped. Went from an old Intel P4 with PATA drives and 100mbps realtek
network card to an
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 27/01/10 13:14:
I've been continuing my experimentation with backup and
restore using
Ubuntu server 9.04.
Today I restored my system to completely different hardware
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:22:53 you wrote:
You might need to twiddle the contents of
/etc/modules or /etc/modules.conf if the old one has been explicitly
specified there.
Or try doing anifconfig -a because plain ifconfig only shows
interfaces that are up.
dmesg | grep -i eth
Hadley Rich wrote, On 27/01/10 13:31:
Or, because the NIC is a different interface e.g. eth1 and you only have eth0
specified in your interfaces config.
Ubuntu will create a persistant interface name for each NIC, this uses the
file;
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
which you can
Cheers Hadley - exactly my problem. Regards, Bryce.
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From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 1:31 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?
On Wed, 27 Jan
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
After restoring the only thing not going seems to be my network connection.
In my /etc/network/interfaces I still have the lines:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Your new network interface is probably eth1, and eth0 is
: no network after restore to new hardware?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bryce Stenberg
br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
After restoring the only thing not going seems to be my
network connection.
In my /etc/network/interfaces I still have the lines:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Your new
