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Originally Posted by Smokin...
I am trying to install DEBIAN ETCH on to a new GA-M61VME-S2 based machine, the NIC uses the RTL8201 chipset.
I have used both the AMD64 & i386 images as well as an Ubuntu image and have the same problem...
The install process finds all hardware, including the SATA drive, expect the MOBO NIC. 
I have search forums and googled the problem, but to date have found no solution.
I am aware that I can install a separate NIC but would prefer using the onboard.
An help would be appreciated.
Nick |
maroonbaboon
Thank you for all your help.
The problem is now solved.
Some some reason the DEBIAN installer placed an invalid MAC address in z25_persistent-net.rules. This is why the third (eth2) record was being generated, see below.
So I just put the correct MAC address in eth0 and deleted eth2, rebooted and voila it worked.
Regards
Nick
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# PCI device 0x10de:0x03ef (forcedeth)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:00:4a:4c:21:a6", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x1186:0x1300 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:05:5d:32:34:a6", NAME="eth1"
# PCI device 0x10de:0x03ef (forcedeth)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:1a:4d:41:68:c3", NAME="eth2"
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FOOTNOTE: 23 June 2007
After all the messing about I decided to rebuilt the system and apply the fixes systematically these were:
1. Installed temporary D-LINK card
2. Install Etch use D-LINK
3. remove CD source from apt sourcelist
4. add backport source to apt list
5. apt-get update
6. apt-get upgrade
7. apt-get install 'backport' AMD64 linux-image-2.6.21
8. fix mac address in z25_persistent-net.rules; eth0
9. remove eth1, eth2
10. remove D-LINK
11. reboot, fixed
