[plug] no eth0, but drivers load...

[Lucas van Staden]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Lucas van Staden <lvs at dedmeet.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I have an old compaq evo N400 laptop, which I had turned into a
>> picture frame a few years back.  Today I decided to revamp it a bit,
>> (new frame, new install)
>>
>> Part of the process was to remove DSL and go with Debian R4.
>>
>> When booting, the system detects the onboard ethernet, and load the
>> e100 driver, which reports the card is fine (calls it eth0), and gives
>> the mac address, and irq however, there is no eth0 device available,
>> only lo.
>>     
>
> Does the eth0 device show up if you run 'ifconfig -a' as root?
>   
Thank you, ifconfig -a show it as eth2, strange as the dmesg of the 
driver loading names it as eth0, so I have been looking only for eth0, 
and I did try eth1, but not eth2

But now thinking about it, it does make sense, as the thinkpad laptop 
has eth0 (wired), and eth1 (wireless), thus the 'new' nic on the 
pictureframe will be eth2

Anyone know what I must edit to move it back to eth0, just a nice to 
have, not crucial.
> What turns up in dmesg after installing the e100 driver, or related to
> the Ethernet side of things?
>
> My guess is that it isn't configured by the system, so is present but
> down, although that is a pretty wild guess at this point.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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