Great, Thanks for the help. Deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restarting seemed to do the trick.
Thanks again. j On 26 June 2012 09:48, Simon Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 26 June 2012 09:20, James Morrissey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've just had some repairs done on my faulty Thinkpad x121e. From the >> report i got it seems that lenovo replaced the board, the keyboard the >> palmrest and updated the BIOS. >> >> Now however i seem to have a problem with the wired network (ethernet). >> >> Since the board has changed i think that i might be experiencing the >> problems mentioned here: >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/ubuntu-wired-network-not-working-after-motherboard-replacement-909481/ >> >> In particular: >> "The motherboard will have had onboard Ethernet so the MAC address >> will have changed for the interface. make sure the config is not >> restricted by MAC also check as udev might have kept the old NIC as >> eth0 and the new one is eth1" >> >> I was wondering if anyone here could give me some instructions on how >> to check for restrictions by MAC and how to check udev. >> > > There are more fundamental things you can check: do the ethernet port LEDs > light at the computer and switch/modem ends? What happens if you boot from a > live CD/USB? > > The MAC address of your machine will have changed, and you can see what it > is by opening a terminal and typing 'ifconfig eth0'. Your MAC address is the > HWaddr field on the first line. > > Udev rules are in /etc/udev/rules.d. On my desktop there's a ruleset > called 70-persistent-net.rules which does have your MAC address in it > although I would have thought that would have been updated by the OS if it > detected a change. As Alan says, if it's different to ifconfig HWaddr, > delete it and it should be rebuilt. > > s/ > -- > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > "TBA are particularly glib" > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- James Morrissey Research Officer Refugee Studies Centre | Department of International Development | University of Oxford 3 Mansfield Road | Oxford, United Kingdom | OX1 3TB -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
