Re: no network/eth0 with etch

On 07/11/2007 11:49 AM, Robert Cates wrote:
Hello Debian Users,

Does Etch (i386/i486) with the (standard) 2.6.18 kernel have a problem
recognizing (some) network cards?

I have a problem ever since apt-get dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch.
Etch with the standard 2.6.18 kernel does not find/recognize my network
cards. Sarge (3.1) did and ran fine, Etch does not, and I even bought a
new network card (which has a different chip) and it still does not.
Not even the Debian installer from the CD1 ISO auto-detects the cards,
or accepts my manual selection.

I have NetGear FA311 adapters - the older one has the National
Semiconductor chip (DP83816AVNG) which worked fine with Sarge (2.6.8
kernel) and the newer one has the Realtek RTL8139D chip.

Oh, what is sit0? When I give >> ifconfig -a I get the loopback and
sit0 interfaces(?).

All advice/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Robert,

I suspect sit0 is explained in the output of that command:
...
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
...

For your network problem, have you checked the list archives? I know
this has come up before. In fact, I have the 8139 RealTek chip and had
problems upgrading. Also there are some cautions in the the release
notes for etch upgrades that may apply to this:

5.1.7. Asynchronous network initialization may cause unpredictable behavior
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On systems which use `udev' to load drivers for network interfaces, it
is possible due to the asynchronous nature of `udev' that the network
driver will not be loaded before `/etc/init.d/networking' runs on
system boot.

Here's one thread that may help where ACPI was the culprit:
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/289791

Give us more info, as others have suggested.

Good luck!

Ralph Katz


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