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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Help! My machine is rendered nearly
inoperable by a hardware swap. It can't see my USB Ethernet interface and
it thinks my DVB card is an Ethernet card. How do I straighten it
out?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Background</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>My machine had an Ethernet card. Everything
was fine. My objective was to remove the card, put a DVB card in the slot,
and use a USB Ethernet interface. What I did was install the USB Ethernet
dongle. It was autodetected at boot. I configured it and disabled
the installed card. At reboot, the default route was through the USB
interface. Everything was fine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Next, I removed the Ethernet card and inserted
the DVB card. Upon boot, the Ethernet card was detected as missing, and
the DVB card was detected. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Unfortunately, (1) the machine thinks the DVB
card is and Ethernet card, and (2) The USB dongle is not detected as being
present (although its lights are on, I verified it as working on another
machine, and my USB kb & mouse work).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I'm running Fedora Core 3 on x86. Probably
a 2.6.10 kernel. If I could ssh in, I could tell for sure.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>JB</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>