Definitely check out Scott's lspci suggestion - this will show if it is a hardware problem
As far as /etc/iftab goes, this is not used in Ubuntu 7.10 anymore....this functionality is moved to hotplug,. and maybe causing your prob. As you said, the NIC was in when Ubuntu was installed. However, some NICs for some curious reason do sometimes change MAC address between powerups. Checkout the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules . If there are lots of entries in their for different MAC addresses, there is your problem. This file is generated during bootup by /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. The suggestion at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3816892 suggests to backup and delete these two files. The system will then just assign ethernet devices numbers in the order it finds them, and if it only every finds one NIC then it will always be eth0 Martin On Nov 29, 2007 1:07 AM, Linux Wongy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:01 +1100, Heracles wrote: > > > But ubuntu will connect once or twice IF I MOVE THE NETWORK CARD FROM > > > ONE SLOT TO ANOTHER between boots! > > I don't quite follow exactly what he means. > > If it is an upgrade, check for a file called /etc/iftab. If it is a new > NIC then the old NIC's MAC address may still be hardcoded in there and > preventing it from assigning eth0 to it. > > Simon Wong > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
