Skithextrm
09-06-2003, 08:29 AM
The other day the fan on my GPU was starting to die so I powered down, opened the case and removed the power connector from the fan to the GPU board, replaced the card and tried to power up again. The machine boots fine but when it tries to bring up eth0 I get these error messages:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface. No such device
SIOCSIFBRADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
* Failed to bring up eth0
Consequently, none of my network services will start either. I did a search on these forums and found quite a bit and implemented some of the suggestions like turning PnP off in BIOS and making sure my card had the proper addresses assigned to it, but nothing worked. I know it's not my kernel configuration because everything was working well before the GPU fan died, but I even recompiled with my working configuration and received the same messages. My NIC support is built in to the kernel, not compiled as a module so lsmod or anything like that doesn't really help. Also, there are no references in dmesg to eth0 -- it's like it doesn't exist.
Another interesting facet of this is that my nVidia modules aren't being loaded either -- I have to recompile the nVidia kernel since I recompiled the kernel, but could this have any effect on my NIC not being recognized?
I posted a similar thread on the Gentoo forums but I rarely get as much help as I do here so I posted again.
Thanks,
Jon
P.S. I didn't know whether this should be in Hardware or Networking so please move it if it needs to be changed.
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface. No such device
SIOCSIFBRADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
* Failed to bring up eth0
Consequently, none of my network services will start either. I did a search on these forums and found quite a bit and implemented some of the suggestions like turning PnP off in BIOS and making sure my card had the proper addresses assigned to it, but nothing worked. I know it's not my kernel configuration because everything was working well before the GPU fan died, but I even recompiled with my working configuration and received the same messages. My NIC support is built in to the kernel, not compiled as a module so lsmod or anything like that doesn't really help. Also, there are no references in dmesg to eth0 -- it's like it doesn't exist.
Another interesting facet of this is that my nVidia modules aren't being loaded either -- I have to recompile the nVidia kernel since I recompiled the kernel, but could this have any effect on my NIC not being recognized?
I posted a similar thread on the Gentoo forums but I rarely get as much help as I do here so I posted again.
Thanks,
Jon
P.S. I didn't know whether this should be in Hardware or Networking so please move it if it needs to be changed.