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Old 12-26-2007, 01:11 AM   #1
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ethernet not found


there are 3 network interface cards in my linux box, All nics were working, but suddenly one of them stop responding.

#ifconfig eth1
error fetching interface information: Device not found

even though modules are loaded in kernel. and information is in /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.

#cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 8139too
alias eth2 3c59x


]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0 2)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02 )
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controllerrev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 6c)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
02:07.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20319 (FastTrak S150 TX4) (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 01)



Any suggestion to resolve this error.
 
Old 12-26-2007, 02:30 AM   #2
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Well, your output for some N/W commands show that you have three Ethernet controllers. What do you mean by "one of them stopped working" - I mean, which is not working?

What does ifconfig -a say? In my case, it is:
Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:D3:08:49:5E
          inet addr:192.168.1.123  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:d3ff:fe08:495e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1513901 (1.4 MiB)  TX bytes:355690 (347.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:177 Base address:0xd000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6723 (6.5 KiB)  TX bytes:6723 (6.5 KiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
          inet addr:172.16.195.1  Bcast:172.16.195.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
In this, I have eth0 active. You can see that 347 KB have been transferred. You can try giving <sudo network-admin> and configuring the connection again. Then restart the PC again. Post if you still have probs. Also, please use the CODE tags to display any code. Otherwise, it is very confusing and also looks ugly.

Last edited by deepumnit; 12-26-2007 at 02:35 AM.
 
Old 12-26-2007, 03:46 AM   #3
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yes i have 3 physical NIC, and i have installed VMware server 1.0, my host OS is FC7, and guest OS is FBSD 6.2. i have also rebooted the system. but still i am getting same error

<code>
root#ifconfig -a
__tmp1021392386 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:33:03:21
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2800

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:F1:99:CB:B6
inet addr:202.69.53.82 Bcast:202.69.53.87 Mask:255.255.255.248
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe99:cbb6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:679923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:561868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:545090672 (519.8 MiB) TX bytes:113780161 (108.5 MiB)

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50A:2D:77:0E
inet addr:10.10.10.15 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fe2d:770e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:479378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:677010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:112336003 (107.1 MiB) TX bytes:571216873 (544.7 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4c00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
</code>
 
Old 12-26-2007, 03:51 AM   #4
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yes i have 3 physical NIC, and i have installed VMware server 1.0, my host OS is FC7, and guest OS is FBSD 6.2. i have also rebooted the system. but still i am getting same error, NIC 2 (eth1) is not availabe in ifconfig "device not found"


root#ifconfig -a
__tmp1021392386 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:33:03:21
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2800

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:F1:99:CB:B6
inet addr:172.16.0.10 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe99:cbb6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:679923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:561868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:545090672 (519.8 MiB) TX bytes:113780161 (108.5 MiB)

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50A:2D:77:0E
inet addr:10.10.10.15 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fe2d:770e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:479378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:677010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:112336003 (107.1 MiB) TX bytes:571216873 (544.7 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4c00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2203772 (2.1 MiB)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

root#ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found


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Last edited by Ammad; 12-26-2007 at 03:52 AM.
 
Old 12-26-2007, 07:03 AM   #5
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It may be a problem with your NIC (for eth1). Re-configure eth1 and then activate it. Restart the comp and try. It should work, if it does not, then it is a problem with the card. Also try it on any other computer, just to make sure that the card is alright.
 
  


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