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   Message 16,103 of 17,684   
   pk to Wim Cossement   
   Re: No NIC?   
   20 Feb 08 10:27:38   
   
   From: pk@pk.pk   
      
   Wim Cossement wrote:   
      
   > But when I manually run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start I get:   
   >   
   > * Starting eth0   
   > *   Bringing up eth0   
   > *     dhcp   
   > *       network interface eth0 does not exist   
   > *       Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)   
   >   
   > I'm quite sure I forgot something stupid but I don't know what, so if I   
   > need to do more elaboration please tell me since I've been using Windows   
   > since... :-/   
      
   As Aragorn correctly said, it's probably a udev-related problem, since your   
   new ethernet card has a different MAC address. Try removing the   
   file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (udev will recreate it with   
   sane values at next boot), reboot and see what happens.   
      
   Regards   
      
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