confusing network interface problems

[Jean Blignaut]

Ok heres what I got:

dmesg |grep eth

[42949386.120000] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd00e2000, 00:40:f4:a8:8f:1b, IRQ 201
[42949386.120000] eth0: Identified 8139 chiptype 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[42949386.120000] eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd0150000, 00:14:6c:8b:37:bf, IRQ 169


lspci |grep Eth

0000:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co. Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co. Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jean Blignaut
Sent: 24 October 2006 11:22 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: RE: confusing network interface problems

That’s a little dificuilt since I cant ssh into the box to copy and paste it but let me go write it down...

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Eric Lemoine
Sent: 24 October 2006 11:07 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: confusing network interface problems

On 10/24/06, Jean Blignaut <jean at megaweb.biz> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I have set up an installation of the latest server edition (what is that
> 6.06?) any way I set it up on a machine with an onboard IF (via-rhine) and
> one pci IF (posssibly  realtek 8139)
>
>
>
> Every thing went fine an I had no problems, however after making a clone of
> the disk and trying to use on an identical machine (except possibly the pci
> IF which in this case is definitely realtek 8139) I suddenly have a problem
> detecting the interfaces
>
>
>
> lspci shows the interfaces
>
> as does
>
> dmesg |grep eth
>
> but when I try /etc/init.d/networking restart it tells me there is an error
> starting eth0 – no such device
>
> also ifconfig shows only lo
>
> while ifconfig –a shows lo and eth2 ??


Could you post (a) the output of "dmesg | grep eth" and (b) the
content of your /etc/network/interfaces?


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