I have been running an IBM etherjet 100/10 card for several years in a system with the motherboard's VIA Rhine LAN disabled. But, now the etherjet went bad, eeprom corrupted error in system log, so I removeed it and enabled the VIA Rhine on the motherboard.

However, when I boot slackware 13 , smp huge kernel (I have not got around to building custom for this system), I no longer have eth0, only lo.

However, system log has:
eth0: VIA Rhine II found at 0x0e2001000. 00:0d:87:9c:55:ab, IRQ 11
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 0Sel Link 4SEL

So, why does it no appear with ifconfig?
I also have a ubuntu 9.10 install on a separate partition and it detects and uses the VIA LAN in place of the old etherjet.

wufo

Hi,

eth0 seems not to up. Try ifconfig -a to view inactive devices too.

When you change ethernet cards, you should delete the fileAnd reboot. The file will be recreated and hopefully
the card will work without further fiddling.

Hello wufo,

it may be that your system recognizes the new card as eth1 since eth0 was the old card.

Markus

Thanks to all. removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules fixed it.

wufo