On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 06:15 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote: >> Whenever a network card is replaced in Fedora 9, many times the new >> NIC takes a new logical interface name instead of taking the original >> interface name. For example, if a network card eth0 is removed from a >> Fedora 9 system and is replaced by another network card, the new card >> appears as eth1 or eth2 instead of eth0. > > Do you have an eth0 configuration file that has a HWADDR= line in it, > with the MAC of your old ethernet card after the equals sign? If so, > then it's holding eth0 for that card, even if that card isn't still in > the box. Remove the line, or set it to the MAC of your new card. > > See: /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686 Had already removed the offending line but it made no difference. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
