I've had a computer running Fedora2 for a few months with no trouble. I have two network cards installed, eth0 for external connection eth1 for local network. I had setup the local network with aliases for playing with apache and virtual hosting. I had 6 aliases on eth1 and they worked fine. Yesterday, I removed three of the aliases via the system-config-network program without problem. After all the config was done and tested (virtual pages came up) I re-booted the system to make sure it all came up running after a reboot automatically. When the kernel started, it came up with the hardware configuration. It said that one of my network cards was removed from the system. I don't know why all I did was reboot. I told it to go ahead and remove the configuration. After that it said it found a new network card, oddly enough, the one it just removed. Exact same driver name and all. I told it to automatically configure it. Since the interface was for the hardware config program is so limited, I figured just set it to DHCP for booting, let it timeout on getting an address lease and boot to X (KDE) so I can go back to the system-config-network program to re-configure it again. Now, the machine booted up, I logged into KDE and started system-config- network. When I got in, it was reporting the card as now being eth2. However, the old configuration for eth1 (and all the aliases) was still in there? so now I've got eth0 eth1, and eth2 with only 2 network cards? Well I got completely confused, started punching buttons, deleting, reconfiguring etc. (guessing all the way)... Now I'm at a point where system-config-network says I have eth0 connected and running (which it is, I can get on the internet)... system-config-network does not show eth1. Nor is eth1 showed as starting during boot. However, in trying to figure out where the other network card was since the 'checking for new hardware' during boot wasn't finding it, I found that it is listed in the 'Hardware Browser'. So, does the 'Hardware Browser' mean that the Kernel actually has the ethernet card installed and all I need to do is configure the OS to run it? More simply put, how do I go about fixing this?
