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*****Bringing up the interface... /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig. is missing or can not be accessed. [FAIL]
Did you check if your network card(s) are found by the kernel?
- dmesg | grep -i "eth[0-9]:"
- Or (you might need to install pciutils first, part of BLFS): lspci | grep -i eth
2. my Kernel configuration:
...
->Ethernet driver support
[*] VIA devices
<M> VIA Rhine support
[ ] Use MMIO instead of PIO
<M> VIA Velocity support
...
3. running the command:
#dmesg | grep -i "eth0:"
[ 4.000625] via-rhine 0000:06:03.0: eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1b800, 00:24:01:a2:b1:43, IRQ 19
[ 4.001351] via-rhine 0000:06:03.0: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1
4. running lsmod:
Module Size Used by
...
via_rhine 22412 0
ehci_hcd 35684 0
mii 12595 1 via_rhine
when booting say:
Interface eth0 doesn't exist. [ WARN ]" or Bringing up the eth0 interface [FAIL].
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