On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> let's see if i can make a long story short. for the sake of sheer
> experimentation, i wanted to see if i could *totally* remove all
> networking configuration from a gateway laptop running F8 x86_64, then
> use system-config-network (henceforth, s-c-n) to recreate it from
> scratch.
>
> the underlying hardware (from lspci):
> ...
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036
> PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
> ...
> 08:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> ...
>
> so i went into s-c-n, removed all traces of network configuration
> under both the Devices and Hardware tabs, saved that, removed the
> lines from /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> alias eth0 sky2 (um ... i think that's what it was)
> alias wlan0 b43 (added previously by me for wireless)
>
> i then unloaded the above modules from the system, and verified that
> the directory /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices is utterly empty. so
> ... should i be able to put stuff back?
>
> if i invoke s-c-n again, i'm not surprised to see both the Devices
> and Hardware tabs totally empty. so how could i recreate the wired
> interface eth0? if i try to add a new device of type "Ethernet
> Connection", i'm given only a choice of "Other Ethernet Card",
and i
> don't see a corresponding entry for that ethernet controller. should
> i? or am i going about this the wrong way? what would be the correct
> recipe to restore my eth0 interface?
>
> i have just as little success trying to restore the wlan0 wireless
> interface, *until* i add the line
>
> alias wlan0 b43
>
> back to /etc/modprobe.conf, at which point restoring the wireless
> interface via s-c-n is a piece of cake (it even handles the access
> point's WEP).
>
> so wireless is back, but still no wired interface eth0, although i'm
> puzzled that the directory /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices now
> contains three files:
>
> ifcfg-eth0
> ifcfg-wlan0
> keys-wlan0
>
> and ifcfg-eth0 contains:
>
> # Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> HWADDR=00:E0:B8:BF:7C:3F
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
>
> so what have i messed up? is there, in fact, any way to restore
> eth0? thanks.
I think you need to reboot.
as a last test, i once again removed every trace of wireless from the
system, then manually added back in the config file
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=<MAC address>
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
and added to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 sky2
then rebooted. upon reboot, i run s-c-n and, under Devices, i find:
Inactive | eth0 | eth0 | Ethernet
ok, that looks promising. but under the Hardware tab, i see:
Broadcom BCM4318 ... | Ethernet | eth0 | ok
Broadcom BCM4318 ... | Wireless | wlan0 | system
Broadcom BCM4318 ... | Wireless | wlan0 | system
argh! am i misunderstanding something fundamental here? why does
wireless insist on getting in the way, even though i've tried to
de-activate it every way i can think of?
i'm pretty much out of ideas here. wireless is easy to restore, but
for the life of me, i can't recreate eth0.
rday
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