Procedure to replace a NIC - PLEASE HELP!

[Steven Stromer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:51, Steven Stromer wrote:
>>> Steven, I don't know whether this has any relevance or not, but I
>>> recently changed a NIC in a FC4 box, and initially had a problem.  It
>>> seems that it had detected the card correctly, and was loading the
>>> driver, but it had remembered the MAC address of the old card.  I had to
>>> remove the card's entry in system-config-network, then run kudzu to get
>>> the new card read in again. Since then I have had no problem.
>>>
>>> Anne
>> Anne,
>>
>> I don't run a GUI. I believe that system-config-network changes the
>> settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, which I did
>> manually. You are right that the hardware address did need manual
>> altering. I rebooted, which is what I think you mean by running kudzu.
>> Is there a way to invoke kudzu manually?
>>
> Yes - I did it from a console.  Just type 'kudzu' - though I think it has to 
> be run as root.
> 
> Anne
> 

Tried this. I note that when rebooting, the system now hangs on 
"Shutting down interface eth0". I really need help with this problem; 
I'm really stuck. I noticed on the Realtek site that there is no 
downloadable driver for the 2.6 kernel. Is it possible that the driver 
included with FC5 doesn't support the Realtek 8169 chipset, and noone 
noticed? Does anyone have this chipset working under FC5 and 2.6? Could 
it be an iptables conflict that was created by upgrading the NIC? None 
of the network settings have changed from one card to the next. Could it 
be some kind of SELinux thing? Does SELinux need to be informed of the 
upgrade? I can't think of what to do next! Ethtool seems to not be able 
to work with the NIC at all, so I can't even get much info regarding the 
  adapter's settings.

Thank you for any and all assistance!