My eth0 isn't wireless, damit

[Janina Sajka]

Rob Andrews writes:
> On 27-Jun-2006 00:53.58 (BST), Janina Sajka wrote:
>  > Yesterday, my eth0 & eth0:0 was working with the r8169 driver and the
>  > current 2.6.17 kernel. This morning, it's quite thoroughly hosed:
>  > 
>  > root at fantasia 10:49 ~#ifup eth0
>  > SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
>  > SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
>  > SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
>  > SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
>  > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>  >     SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
>  > SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
>  > Failed to bring up eth0
>  > 
>  > So, what's with the wireless presumption?
> 
> Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Chances are the TYPE=
> parameter is set to "Wireless", change it to "Ethernet". I think the
> network scripts ignore the extraneous settings that pertain to wireless
> networks, but you can most likely remove fields like RATE=, MODE= and
> ESSID=.
> 

But there weren't any of these wireless fields in that file, and adding
"TYPE=Ethernet" didn't help. Still gives me the SIOCGIF* type errors. I
should think that specifying the hwaddr would be definitive, but it seems it's
getting ignored--something I've also seen on my laptop at times.

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