[Klug-general] No eth0 - got me stumped!

[Jeremy Hooks]

edit.  It appears mii-tools has been replaced by ethtool, and needs the a
devname to work with, so it probably isn't much use afterall.

2008/10/13 Jeremy Hooks <jeremyhooks at googlemail.com>

> Hi George.
>
> Just to add my tuppence.  My system currently has 8139cp and 8139too loaded
> and dhcpcd doesn't have any difficulty.  I am currently running openSUSE 11,
> but have run various Ubuntu's previously without problems, though I didn't
> check which modules it was running.
>
> Just to say that running cp and too at the same time isn't necessarily a
> problem.  mii-tool/mii-diag my be worth a try if you have it to hand.  I
> can't remember any of the options for these tools - it is a long time since
> I have used mii-tools, and I can't seem to find a package for them for
> openSUSE.
>
> Regards.
>
> Jeremy.
>
> 2008/10/10 George Prowse <george.prowse at gmail.com>
>
> Ok, it's not as if i'm a new user but something on Ubuntu on one of my
>> boxes has me stumped.
>>
>> Like always, every distro tries to load up both 8139cp and 8139too
>> drivers for this system and it then fails in the dhcp step. All i do is
>> rmmod the cp and dhcpcd/dhclient eth0 and badda-bing! All working.
>>
>> Anyway, this time this time there is no eth0 and no rmmod'ing,
>> modprobing and ifup'ing can make it appear.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Also, can anyone tell me where the modules blacklist is/goes because i
>> remember in Gentoo I think it was in /etc/modules/autoload.d/blacklist
>> or something but that was ages ago.
>>
>> George
>>
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