I have just installed a Dlink DGE-528T ethernet card.
I cannot get an ethernet connection, the following messages appear when I boot debian 6.0 squeeze in recovery mode:
Configuring network interfaces ... Internt Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth0

I have run the command lspci and the ethernet card is listed
cat /proc/ioports shows an entry for the driver r8169
cat /proc/interrupts does not show anything that I can recognize

Can anyone suggest why the etho is failing.
Thanks

Is (or was) there a different card in that system? May be the card is simply not eth0, i have that problem sometime when switching cards or cloning an OS to a different system. In that case the solution is to remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restart the machine.

Tobi, are you sure to remove the file? I would recommend to edit the file (as root) and remove the lines mentioning eth0, eth1, etc.

I do agree with your conclusion that udev is renaming the network adapter.

To the OP: you can do dmesg | less and search for eth. Most probably you will see that eth1 or eth2 is installed instead of eth0. Which is solved by editing the file mentioned.

jlinkels

Yes, I am. I do that all the time, udev will simply create a new one when the machine is rebooted, with the new card named eth0.