On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:27 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Systems are not finding the nic after clonng to an identical machine as they > have with all version from Redhat 9 to Fedora 7. Now it is coming up with a > message that eth0 doesn't appear to be present. Deleting the network setup > in the gui, and then creating a new one using eth1 instead of eth0 that still > shows up as an option then works. > > In dmesg, found that kudzu has an error. > > warning: process 'kudzu' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23. > > I've run it at the command prompt with kudzu -p and it produces output that > shows the eth0, but the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf does not show those lines. > > I am going to reimage a machine, and see if redirecting the output of > kudzu -p >/etc/sysconfig/hwconf > and then rebooting will fix the problem, but even if it does, is this a problem > that could effect other things if kudzu isn't working, and is there an > alternative? ---- seems to me that you know what you are doing but you have to be careful because it's possible that you have a HWADDR=something in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 in your image that you use to 'clone' and that of course would break things just like this. Craig
