Problem with redhat-config-network

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:35:09PM -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
> its a 3com isa card and kudzu didn't find it

I am concerned with your statment that you deleted all the network
cards. How did you try to do that? I have never had kudzu not
recognise a 3com card.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Aaron Konstam
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Problem with redhat-config-network
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Rick Lim um 18:13:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I have just changed network cards and the old network card still seems
> to be
> > > there
> > > even though I have deleted all the network card and rebooted, when I try
> to
> > > assign the new
> > > network card the old one shows up, but I am able to select the new one
> and
> > > carry on to the
> > > confirmation screen, but then is says you have selected (the old card)
> for
> > > eth0 and I cannot get pass that.
> > >
> > > Is there some config file that I have to manually edit to get rid of
> this
> > > old card?
> >
> > Delete the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and let it entirely
> > create a new one by using redhat-config-network. If you are experienced
> > enough you of course could edit that plain text file by hand too. Then
> > please keep care to have the MAC address (HHWADDR) of the new card in
> > the config file, else the new card would not work properly.
> >
> 
> I don't know. I have never had the MAC address in a ifcfg-eth0 file.
>  But when I have switched cards and rebooted kudzu should have asked
>  to remove the old card and configure the new card. I assume kudzu was
>  being run on boot. I would check the kudzu config file and see what
>  card it thinks is configured.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
One Trinity Place.
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

telephone: (210)-999-7484
email:akonstam at trinity.edu