Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1599 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:03:53 on Tuesday Tuesday 13 October 2009, Per Jessen 
<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > Okay, that's better.  Yet you still can't bring the interface up
> > > with "ifup eth0".  That would indicate that perhaps the module
> > > wasn't loaded properly.
> > > Check to see what 'lsmod' says - is "r8169" loaded?  If not, try to
> > > load it with "modprobe r8169". Then check that it was loaded, and if
> > > not, use 'dmesg" to see why.  The last few lines will usually tell
> > > you.
> >
> > Actually, what I had installed was r8168. But neither of the two
> > appeared in the lsmod list.
> > I ran modprobe r8168, which says "FETAL: Module r8168 not found".
>
> Okay, so no such module.  I'm pretty certain r8169 will support the
> r8168 chip too.
>
> > Running modprobe rr8169 gave no response at all, which sounded
> > better, and r8169 does appear in the lsmod list; it has "0" users.
>
> Very good - so the module can be loaded.  At this point, did you
> try "ifup eth0"?

I did: "Interface eth0 is not available".


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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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