Hi, You nailed it. Near the end of dmesg, I get this line: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 That would just about do it. Question is, why's it doing it, and how do I stop it? I am not at all familiar with udev, so a simple explanation would probably be best. Thanks, Jayson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:16 PM Subject: Re: Ethernet not working, a weird one! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:47:18PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: >> On June 18, lightning struck our home. > > Wow, do you mean that literally? If you mean that lightning struck your > power/phone lines, then I'd strongly suggest investing in a surge > protector, one with protection for both power and phone, and hook up > your pc to it, including network hub/switch, and dsl/dial-up modems to > the phone line through the protector. If you have cable, then there > are surge protectors that also have coax jacks. > >> What could this be? > > If the card shows up in lspci, and you have the driver for it loaded, > it should also show up in dmesg. So, what does dmesg have to say? I'd > say you might have a udev issue somewhere, though that's just a > guess. Also, are you sure that the card isn't in fact recognized? It > could be recognized, but assigned a different interface, like eth1 > instead of eth0. If that's the case, then that's a udev rule issue. To > answer your other question in another post, no, if you have the driver > built into the kernel, then there are no modules to load. > >> If I end up having to rebuild from scratch, what is a currently good >> distro for console only, no GUI Linux that supports Speakup? If I were >> rebuilding anyway, I would strongly consider switching from Gentoo to an >> easier to maintain distro. > > I'd recommend debian myself. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpraDIACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBmcACgmx1zbLj6rU/fZSOQe6TyG6qZ > wg4An1hkrkt5B911HKoKxN9JysQOHVwR > =caB1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup