Network Card cannot be reached
I am experiencing an intersting situation with OpenSuse 9.2. I installed it on a Compaq/HP (pentium-iv) and the network worked great for quite a while in 2005. Then, for some reason, it could not find the network card during boot and "ifconfig" did not show any eth interface, no network either. I tried yast and the device is there and configured. When the system boot, I get a message "/dev/mapper/control" cannot be found. Then, the system waits for a required device (the eth0 device) but it cannot be found so it fails. The network fails right after. When I sign on on the KDE and go to yast, the network card shows OK. I took the disk (ide with OpenSuse 9.2) into another PC where I know for a fact the network card is working (it had Win/XP). After KDE added the new controllers and network card, I went to yast and deleted the old network card and activated the new one (new PC). I rebooted and the same thing, It can't find the eth0 at boot time. Same message. any ideas before I reinstall everything?
On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:49, Yu Safin wrote:
any ideas before I reinstall everything?
Hi Yu, First, it is SuSE 9.2 (or SuSE 9.2 Professional) since the first OpenSUSE release was 10.0 Second, you need to determine the origin of the error message. In my experience, files suddenly disappear in these cases: - Operator error, like a misdirected/mistyped rm -f or cp -r - erroneous installation of '3rd party' software or a misapplied patch - the filesystem is corrupted When you find the original cause for the error, you are then in a position to correct the problem. At this point, reinstalling the OS seems kind of drastic. Try doing some tests and look at the logs, first. regards, - Carl
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Carl Hartung
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Yu Safin