Re: Problem with redhat-config-network

From: Aaron Konstam (akonstam_at_trinity.edu)
Date: 04/10/04

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    On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
    > Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Rick Lim um 18:13:
    >
    > > Hi there,
    > >
    > > I have just changed network cards and the old network card still seems to be
    > > there
    > > even though I have deleted all the network card and rebooted, when I try to
    > > assign the new
    > > network card the old one shows up, but I am able to select the new one and
    > > carry on to the
    > > confirmation screen, but then is says you have selected (the old card) for
    > > eth0 and I cannot get pass that.
    > >
    > > Is there some config file that I have to manually edit to get rid of this
    > > old card?
    >
    > Delete the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and let it entirely
    > create a new one by using redhat-config-network. If you are experienced
    > enough you of course could edit that plain text file by hand too. Then
    > please keep care to have the MAC address (HHWADDR) of the new card in
    > the config file, else the new card would not work properly.
    >

    I don't know. I have never had the MAC address in a ifcfg-eth0 file.
     But when I have switched cards and rebooted kudzu should have asked
     to remove the old card and configure the new card. I assume kudzu was
     being run on boot. I would check the kudzu config file and see what
     card it thinks is configured. 

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