IBM eserver, rhel 2.1, network issue

Will McDonald wmcdonald at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 23:15:44 UTC 2005


On 24/08/05, Greg Golin <greg.golin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have cloned a rhel-2.1 installation from a noname machine onto an ibm x306
> eserver. Had to tweak the drive conf [scsi vs ide] and size, other than that
> the thing works.
> Had to update the e1000 driver, was prepared for that. What I was not
> prepared for is the fact that with the updated driver only eth0 works. The
> other NIC, eth1, will not start, the error message is: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such
> device. Failed to bring up eth1.

Have you an alias in /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf for eth1?
What's the output from...

dmesg | grep -C2 eth


Will.




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