[nflug] eth0 on debian configured sd card

Eric Benoit eric at bootz.us
Tue Nov 4 11:50:38 EST 2008


ok, one more question, since my computer knows the ip address associated 
with a previous mac address, do I have to clear some kind of cache on my 
computer as well?
 ...I'm using nc/zcat

Robert Wolfe wrote:
> You will most likely need to delete the file 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and reboot for each machine 
> you use this card on.  I had this same problem when moving Debian VMs 
> from from VM server to another and this resolved the issue.  The same 
> thing works when moving a hard drive with Debian installed from from 
> physical machine to another.
>
> Robert Wolfe [MCP/Linux+/RHCE] <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
> Systems Administrator, Localnet Corporation / Corecomm Internet Svcs.
> http://www.localnet.com | http://www.core.com
> Direct:  (716) 799-8884
>
> Eric Benoit wrote:
>> Greetings, I configured an sd card to run debian to that I could 
>> image drives and retrieve images for some eeePC900 laptops.
>>
>> I am doing this over the network to my computers hard drive space.
>>
>> The first laptop I re-imaged worked fine over the network, which was 
>> also the laptop I installed debian on the sd card.
>>
>> when I boot from the sd card for the other laptops the network eth0 
>> does not come up I checked /etc/network/interfaces and the 
>> configuration has not changed... do I need to specify a different mac 
>> address somewhere to let linux know about the device... because all 
>> these laptops are the same the network device/hardware is the same 
>> except the mac address ...which is the only reason I think of why the 
>> eth0 device will not work ...and of course pinging does no good... 
>> "Network is unreachable"  I've tried ifup eth0 ...error while getting 
>> interface flags: no such device
>>
>> the network device does work though when I boot with the original 
>> xandros OS
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