gaah! dapper upgrade on server --> lost ethernet!

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:25 -0400, matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I run a small web server which I've just upgraded to dapper.  everything works
> fine exceptthat the NIC no longer works!  ach!  lspci shows a realtek 8139c. 
> lsmod shows the 8139cp and 8139too modules are loaded.  However ifup eth0 gives 
> 
> SIOSCIFADDR: no such device. 
> eth0: ERROR while getting interfacde flags: no such device
> 
> I'm at a bit of a loss -- Actually I have 2 nics on this machine, not sure which
> one isn't being seen, but have tried numerous timeswith both and had no luck. 
> What do I do next?  
> I really appreciate help on this -- I am in dire straits!

Hmm... try doing a "dmesg |grep eth". That ought to give you a list of
the valid ethernet devices.

If you've got ubuntu-desktop installed on your server, just fire up
network-admin.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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