Furthermore, I'm currently at a point where the system-config-network says it has configuration information for eth1 and eth2 still. Even though eth0 is the only card that seems to be working. When I try to activate eth1 or eth2 from system-config-network, it says unable to configure card, card not available... Any thoughts? If I have network card configuration trouble, where do I start troubleshooting? I think I need to go to the Kernel level and see what it thinks is there and how it's configured? On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:57 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote: > 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? > > >
