My eth0 isn't wireless, damit
Rob Andrews
rob at choralone.org
Tue Jun 27 08:40:15 UTC 2006
On 27-Jun-2006 00:53.58 (BST), Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yesterday, my eth0 & eth0:0 was working with the r8169 driver and the
> current 2.6.17 kernel. This morning, it's quite thoroughly hosed:
>
> root at fantasia 10:49 ~#ifup eth0
> SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
> SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
> SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
> SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
> SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> Failed to bring up eth0
>
> So, what's with the wireless presumption?
Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Chances are the TYPE=
parameter is set to "Wireless", change it to "Ethernet". I think the
network scripts ignore the extraneous settings that pertain to wireless
networks, but you can most likely remove fields like RATE=, MODE= and
ESSID=.
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