Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 won't work! [SOLVED]

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Sullivan<msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:37 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Michael Sullivan<msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > A couple of weeks ago my ten year-old(ish) server box died.  I've wanted
>> > to replace it for a long time, and last week we finally did.  We took it
>> > to our local computer shop to have a new hard drive installed, as the
>> > old one used an IDE hard drive and the new PC's motherboard doesn't
>> > support that.  The tech cloned the IDE drive onto a SATA drive and
>> > installed the new SATA.  We got it back this morning.  I've re-built the
>> > kernel several times over the past few hours, and I cannot get net.eth0
>> > to work when not booting from the livecd.  I've got the error message,
>> > lspci and lsmod from the last boot off the hard drive (though I had to
>> > boot with the livecd in order to copy it to my main PC to send it to
>> > you).  The error message is:
>> >
>> >  * Starting eth0
>> >  *   Bringing up eth0
>> >  *     192.168.1.2
>> >  *     network interface eth0 does not exist
>> >  *     Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)
>>
>> My guess is the new interface is called eth1, since it has a different
>> MAC address than the old eth0 (and linux doesn't know that you are
>> replacing it rather than supplementing it). Try editing or completely
>> deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (it will be
>> re-created automatically after you reboot if you delete it). That's
>> where udev decides which network device gets which name.
>>
>
> I deleted that file and rebooted and net.eth0 worked and hopefully
> everything will soon be back to normal.  Thanks for your help!

No problem, glad to hear you are almost back to a regular, working system again!