Re: Problem with redhat-config-network

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Rick Lim um 18:13:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I have just changed network cards and the old network card still seems to be
> > there
> > even though I have deleted all the network card and rebooted, when I try to
> > assign the new
> > network card the old one shows up, but I am able to select the new one and
> > carry on to the
> > confirmation screen, but then is says you have selected (the old card) for
> > eth0 and I cannot get pass that.
> > 
> > Is there some config file that I have to manually edit to get rid of this
> > old card?
> 
> Delete the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and let it entirely
> create a new one by using redhat-config-network. If you are experienced
> enough you of course could edit that plain text file by hand too. Then
> please keep care to have the MAC address (HHWADDR) of the new card in
> the config file, else the new card would not work properly.
> 

I don't know. I have never had the MAC address in a ifcfg-eth0 file.
 But when I have switched cards and rebooted kudzu should have asked
 to remove the old card and configure the new card. I assume kudzu was
 being run on boot. I would check the kudzu config file and see what
 card it thinks is configured.
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