r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
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r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Hello,
I have a new linux box I am setting up as a server for a small cluster. The idea is to have this computer be a gateway for the other computers on the system. Therefor I have two network cards. The first is integrated with the motherboard and is currently setup to be the internet connection. This connection was configured during installation (FC4) and works fine. The second card is one I added post installation. It is a linksys eg1032 v3. After struggling with the installation of this card for some time, I found out that the default FC4 driver (sk98lin) is the wrong one and went through a set of instructions I found on another forum to replace it with a Realtek driver (r8169). Here comes the problem. After following the instruction I found everything seemed to work fine. I was able to detect and activate my second network card (eth1). However, after rebooting it gave me the following error when I tried to activate it:
r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
I attempted several things to revive the connection including following the driver installation procedure again and altering the ifcfg-eth1 file but nothing seems to work. If you have any suggestions, they would be appreciated.
No I don't think so. I changed the /etc/modprob.conf file after updating the driver. Here is the output from lsmod. As you can see r8169 is on the list but sk98lin is not.
Sounds like the driver has loaded but failed to find any supported hardware... My FC4 box shipped with r8169.ko drivers, maybe the old driver is being loaded instead of the new driver. Try
Code:
find /lib/modules -name r8169.ko
You may want to rename or remove the old ones and copy the new one to the same location.
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