Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:49:03PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > > what do you get from > > dmesg | grep -i eth > > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1000, 00:40:f4:35:60:e0, IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > > It might be of interest that I used mo

Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-31 Thread Robert S
> what do you get from > dmesg | grep -i eth 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1000, 00:40:f4:35:60:e0, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' It might be of interest that I used mondo/mindi to create and restore the backup. My installation was recently

Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:27:46PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > > what happens if you do a ifconfig eth0 up ? > > I get the "No such device" error what do you get from dmesg | grep -i eth A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-30 Thread Robert S
> what happens if you do a ifconfig eth0 up ? I get the "No such device" error > what are the contents of /etc/network/interfaces? $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.33 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast

Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-29 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Robert S wrote: I have cloned my installation of Etch onto another (ancient PII) system for backup purposes. When the network starts on the second system I get messages like this: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device .. and the network does not work (when I do 'ifconfig' I only ge

Etch: network won't work

2007-05-29 Thread Robert S
I have cloned my installation of Etch onto another (ancient PII) system for backup purposes. When the network starts on the second system I get messages like this: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device .. and the network does not work (when I do 'ifconfig' I only get 'lo'). My network card is the same