Network Card Config Lost?

[Tim Alberts]

Furthermore, I'm currently at a point where the system-config-network
says it has configuration information for eth1 and eth2 still.  Even
though eth0 is the only card that seems to be working.  When I try to
activate eth1 or eth2 from system-config-network, it says unable to
configure card, card not available...

Any thoughts?  If I have network card configuration trouble, where do I
start troubleshooting?  I think I need to go to the Kernel level and see
what it thinks is there and how it's configured?



On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:57 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> I've had a computer running Fedora2 for a few months with no trouble.  I
> have two network cards installed, eth0 for external connection eth1 for
> local network.  I had setup the local network with aliases for playing
> with apache and virtual hosting.  I had 6 aliases on eth1 and they
> worked fine.
> 
> Yesterday, I removed three of the aliases via the system-config-network
> program without problem.  After all the config was done and tested
> (virtual pages came up) I re-booted the system to make sure it all came
> up running after a reboot automatically.
> 
> When the kernel started, it came up with the hardware configuration.  It
> said that one of my network cards was removed from the system.  I don't
> know why all I did was reboot.  I told it to go ahead and remove the
> configuration.  After that it said it found a new network card, oddly
> enough, the one it just removed.  Exact same driver name and all.  I
> told it to automatically configure it.  Since the interface was for the
> hardware config program is so limited, I figured just set it to DHCP for
> booting, let it timeout on getting an address lease and boot to X (KDE)
> so I can go back to the system-config-network program to re-configure it
> again.
> 
> Now, the machine booted up, I logged into KDE and started system-config-
> network.  When I got in, it was reporting the card as now being eth2.
> However, the old configuration for eth1 (and all the aliases) was still
> in there?  so now I've got eth0 eth1, and eth2 with only 2 network
> cards?  Well I got completely confused, started punching buttons,
> deleting, reconfiguring etc. (guessing all the way)...
> 
> Now I'm at a point where system-config-network says I have eth0
> connected and running (which it is, I can get on the internet)...
> system-config-network does not show eth1.  Nor is eth1 showed as
> starting during boot.  However, in trying to figure out where the other
> network card was since the 'checking for new hardware' during boot
> wasn't finding it, I found that it is listed in the 'Hardware Browser'.
> 
> So, does the 'Hardware Browser' mean that the Kernel actually has the
> ethernet card installed and all I need to do is configure the OS to run
> it?  More simply put, how do I go about fixing this?
> 
> 
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