William Estrada wrote:
> I'm new to Debian, how do I install this driver??
William,
(Re-posting to the list as well. Can the list owner please automatically add an
appropriate Reply-To header?).
I agree with Andy, you may have been bitten by the persistent net rules (put in
place by udev and then applied from then on).
A few things to do:
1. find out which ethernet interfaces you have and which drivers are attached
to them as follows:
# ls -l /sys/class/net/eth*/device/driver
2. if, as Andy and I suspect, you can find all three of your interfaces but
with unexpected names (such as eth{345}), then you indeed have the udev problem
described above. The idea of these udev rules is to guarantee that the names of
your network interfaces will always be the same, regardless of boot order
(particularly, regardless of the order in which network device drivers are
loaded, as this is where races might occur or changes might be made from one
kernel release to the next).
Inspect the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules . You will find, for
each of the network interfaces that this disk image has ever seen, a binding of
the MAC address to a device name. You can either manually edit this (so that
the rule for your eth0's MAC address actually maps it to eth0 rather than to
eth3 or whatever), or just delete all of the rules that are currently wrong.
Just deleting the rules works, because those rules are automatically generated
upon boot, when the system finds a network interface with a MAC address for
which no rule exists yet.
3. if in fact you don't find any network interfaces then you may indeed have a
driver problem. Find out whether the driver exists on your system as follows:
# find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name natsemi.ko
Also verify that it's not blacklisted:
# cd /etc/modprobe.d
# fgrep -r natsemi *
Hope this helps.
Jan
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