> >On 09/11/2013 09:29 AM, Giovanni Ortosecco wrote: >> Dear List, >> first of all I wish to greet all members. >> My name is Giovanni and I'm a chemist in Naples, Italy. >> >> The problem I found is as follows: at work I use Fedora 10 and a >few days ago I changed the motherboard because the old one is >broken. With the new motherboard LAN connection to the network has >stopped working. >> The new motherboard is as follows: >> http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3505 # sp >> >> and as a controller LAN has, as you can see, the Atheros AR8151 >chip (10/100/1000 Mbit). >> >> I saw on the net that there were many problems with this AR8151 chip. >> I also tried to download the latest drivers and install them, but >nothing to do. I only found drivers for Atheros different versions >of the chip, but not for AR8151 >> >> Unfortunately I am forced to not being able to upgrade the >operating system to the new Fedora 19. >> >> I also tried to live to start both Fedora 19 and Ubuntu 13.04 and >the LAN is working properly. So I think it is intended solely as a >driver problem. >> >> Thank you in advance for the help you want to give me. >> Greetings to all, >> >> Friendliness. >> >When you changed the motherboard, the network device named probably >changed with it. This is because Fedora remembers the hardware >associated with the device name. You may want to report back the >results of running: > >/sbin/ifconfig -a > >It will show you what network interfaces the system knows about. > >Mikkel >- -- Dear Mikkel, the output of the command ifconfig -a is as follows: [sabina@sabina-linux archivio]$ sudo ifconfig -a [sudo] password for sabina: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9603 (9.3 KiB) TX bytes:9603 (9.3 KiB) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:62:7C:97:32:A8 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:76:62:6E:65:74 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [sabina@sabina-linux archivio]$ is pan0 my LAN device not working? I have some doubts because, always about the new motherboard, when I start the live version of Fedora 19, and I was recognized as the network (and was working), the MAC address of the LAN device (obtained with the command ifconfig -a) was different. How do I configure this network adapter? Thanks in advance, Best regards, Giovanni -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org