[nflug] eth0 on debian configured sd card

[Robert Wolfe]

Check your interfaces file as well as your /etc/hosts file.

Robert Wolfe [MCP/Linux+/RHCE] <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
Systems Administrator, Localnet Corporation / Corecomm Internet Svcs.
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Eric Benoit wrote:
> 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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