Ethernet not working, a weird one!

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     You nailed it. Near the end of dmesg, I get this line:
udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
That would just about do it. Question is, why's it doing it, and how do I 
stop it? I am not at all familiar with udev, so a simple explanation would 
probably be best.
Thanks,
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Ethernet not working, a weird one!


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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:47:18PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>     On June 18, lightning struck our home.
>
> Wow, do you mean that literally? If you mean that lightning struck your
> power/phone lines, then I'd strongly suggest investing in a surge
> protector, one with protection for both power and phone, and hook up
> your pc to it, including network hub/switch, and dsl/dial-up modems to
> the phone line through the protector. If you have cable, then there
> are surge protectors that also have coax jacks.
>
>> What could this be?
>
> If the card shows up in lspci, and you have the driver for it loaded,
> it should also show up in dmesg. So, what does dmesg have to say? I'd
> say you might have a udev issue somewhere, though that's just a
> guess. Also, are you sure that the card isn't in fact recognized? It
> could be recognized, but assigned a different interface, like eth1
> instead of eth0. If that's the case, then that's a udev rule issue. To
> answer your other question in another post, no, if you have the driver
> built into the kernel, then there are no modules to load.
>
>>     If I end up having to rebuild from scratch, what is a currently good
>> distro for console only, no GUI Linux that supports Speakup? If I were
>> rebuilding anyway, I would strongly consider switching from Gentoo to an
>> easier to maintain distro.
>
> I'd recommend debian myself.
>
> Greg
>
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