No ethernet connection -

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> On 30/05/11 07:06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>> New F-15 install.
>>>
>>>          How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made
>>>          some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool
>>>          simply reports no devices. Is there a routine for setting up
>>>          eth"x" or does it just have to happen automatically? That seems
>>>          unlikely.
>> What does ifconfig say ?
>> Also /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>> (may not be 70)?
>>
>
>        70-persistent-net.rules is there, I forced it to create anew last night. I could never copy all that manually without making a lot of mistakes.
>
>        ifconfig -eth1 "error - Device not found"
>
>        ifconfig -a lists data for em1,lo,and p2p1, with some ethernet HWaddr's for em1 and p2/p1.

The em1/p2p1 names are biosdevname's doing:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

By default, there isn't a 70-persistent-net.rules.