[Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

[Andy Michaels]

William, I think you may be experiencing an issue with udev.  If  
you've mounted this image on another machine, all of the eth ports  
will be assigned to specific MAC addresses (the ones on your laptop).   
If you then put the image on the soekris, you'll see that the eth  
ports you thought you had won't appear to be working.  I think you can  
delete the udev entries for your laptop's MAC addresses and that  
should clear up the issue.  I don't recall exact details, but a "man  
udev" should do it.

-Andy

On Feb 20, 2010, at 6:35 PM, William Estrada wrote:

> Ted Phelps wrote:
>
> Ted,
>
>   The port is OK, it works with the currect OS ( FC5 ).
>
>   I'm new to Debian, how do I install this driver??
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> William Estrada writes:
>>> I have just built a Debian Lenny image for my 4801, which is  
>>> currently
>>> running FC5. It boots but will not bring up eth0, I am using the
>>> serial console.
>>>
>>> I have tested the build with my laptop and eth0 works just fine.
>>>
>>> Did i miss a module for the 4801?? Any ideas??
>>
>> The uses the 'natsemi' driver (CONFIG_NATSEMI).
>>
>> Is it possible that the port is damaged?  Have you tried eth1 or  
>> eth2?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Ted
>>
>
>
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