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

[Florian Diesch]

matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:

> 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?  

* "lshw -C net" should give you some information about your NICs.
* /etc/iftab should contain the mapping from MAC address to logical
  devices 
* dmesg may contain some more information about if there's problem
  loading the driver.


   Florian
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